E~is for Eggs

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Today's post is about chicken eggs.
Did you know that it takes a hen 24-26 hours to lay an egg? And that the average hen lays about 5 eggs a week?
Do you also realize that chickens lay different colored eggs, from white, to brown, green, pink, or blue? Or that there is no difference in flavor or nutrients among egg colors? A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs. The fancy math words to describe an egg shape are oblate spheroid.
And I bet you already knew that eggs are one of the best sources of protein, vitamins, and minerals.
But did you know that the protein found in eggs is of a higher quality than the protein found in meat and fish? Or that eggs are low in calories: one large egg has only about 75 calories. The high protein white averages only about 17 calories and has no fat or cholesterol, making it an excellent diet food.
The average large chicken egg has about 213 milligrams of cholesterol, which is all contained within the yolk. It is recommended that the intake of cholesterol per day should not exceed 300 milligrams.

When multiple eggs are desired for an omelet or scrambled eggs, use 2 egg whites for every 1 yolk. Eliminate all of the yolks. Use egg substitutes. Instead of trying to stay within 300 milligrams of cholesterol per day, try to stay within a weekly total of 2100 milligrams, so that if you exceed the daily total on 1 or 2 days, you can cut down on other days.
Even if you average one egg per day, you can still remain below 300 milligram limit, by eating more fruits and vegetables, and cutting back on fatty meats, butter, oils, and processed foods.
There are many ways to eat eggs:
Fried
Scrambled
Cooked-in-the-Shell
Poached
Baked
Custard
Meringue
Souffle
Sauce or Dressing
Beverage

And I bet you didn't know that it takes 4 lbs.+ of feed to make 1 dozen eggs. Which is why we sell our eggs, to help pay for our 17 chicken's feed bill. It feels good knowing that our chickens are paying their own way and are doing a terrific job being self-sustainable members of our little ranch.

Did you know that there are holidays just for eggs?
The second Friday of October is World Egg Day each year. And May is National Egg Month.
I took the above photos of a basket of our fresh eggs posing alongside a rooster statue, using my annoying borrowed Samsung Digimax200 with zero zoom and only 2.1 megapixels.