Breast Cancer Awareness

October is almost over, but the awareness of Breast Cancer needs to be available all year, everyday. Let's all take time to learn more or spread the word to our sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins and ourselves. Lot's of information is available online...here is one spot nbcam.org. Be a Good Egg and remind the women in your life to take care of themselves and have regular exams.

Spread the word, spread the love, Be A Good Egg!

Good Eggs for the Holiday Season

Supporting our troops means more then putting a sticker on you bumper, but how can you really help? Here is a good organization that makes it easy, Soldiers Angles. You can get involved in many different ways, writing letters, making blankets, sending packages or making a donation to defer the cost of postage. These are Good Eggs really helping our troops and making it easy for us to do so too. www.soldiersangles.org
Spread the word, spread the love, Be A Good Egg!

Community Supported Agriculture

Today I just want to put a little attention on CSA's or Community Supported Agriculture farms. We are members of the closest to our home. We belong to Dancing Roots in Troutdale, OR. These farms are popping up all over the country and they offer more then just great food. Our experience this year has been one of education, camaraderie and commitment. We go every Monday to pick up our share of the produce. We don't really know what we will get from week to week so it's sort of like Christmas. We also get some vegetables that I may not normally have looked into and it forced me to try some new recipes. If you are not familiar with CSA's there are lots of resources on the Internet and the links above are good starts. Just another way to Be A Good Egg.

Chicken Pic: On this post you will see Ruben, aka Ruben T. "Rooster" Cogburn. When he was a little chick I named him Mrs. Cogburn. Then he crowed one morning when he was about 4 months. He has his days when I think he should be on our table, but he is a good guy for his ladies. He always shares his food with them and keeps them "happy" if you know what I mean.

Gallus Domesticus facts

That's Latin for chicken. It's molting season and egg production is way down. The girls look terrible. Most are practically naked and new feathers are not attractive when they are coming in. Apparently molting is triggered by lower light levels and after molting young chickens eggs will get bigger.

-Chickens were domesticated about 8000 years ago.
I thought this one was pretty interesting, 8000 years, wow.
-A hen lives an average of 5-7 years, but can live up to 20 years. She'll lay eggs her entire life, with production decreasing every year from year one.
I get asked a lot how long a chicken lives. Until now I didn't know. I get asked this because I have no intentions of eating my chickens. My girls are here to lay eggs and have a peaceful, lovely life eating bugs and being cute. So far my oldest chickens are 3.

Remember, spread the word, spread the love, be a Good Egg.

Dog Gone GOOD EGGS

We adopted our chihuahua Meadow from a group called Chihuahua Rescue and Retirement when we lived in Florida. This is a family organization started by a sister and brother that was seeing good dogs put down at a shelter because they needed a little recovery time from an injury or health problem. They started taking the dogs home and getting them healthy and bringing them back to the shelter for adoption. What they discovered is they did not have any say in who adopted them at that point. So they created their own rescue and found good homes themselves. We had a fantastic experience adopting from this group, which has grown. They really work with you to find a perfect match and check you out to make sure you are a responsible animal owner. One of their rules is that you can not alter the dog in any way. Every once in a while Meadow asks for her ears to be pierced or a tattoo, but we have to say no, we signed a contract, all alterations are out.

So if you are looking for a new companion, there are lots of good pets that need good homes and turn to a local rescue like CRAR or check out Petfinder.com or the Humane Society. Remember...Spread the word, spread the love, Be A GOOD EGG!

Egg Info: The stringy piece of material in the egg is not an embryo but rather a special protein called chalazae which acts as a shock absorber for the yolk so it doesn't break.