Quote from: Orcs on 20 March 2020, 07:40:02 AM
I think  the panic buyers have bought Kitchen roll as they could not get Loo rol.  Let hope they use the Kitchen roll as loo roll.  It will block their toilets  very quickly   

I imagine a lot of them don't realise that, Mark. 

With Will mentioning eggs......That's the one advantage of keeping a few chickens.
The ones we've got haven't stopped laying throughout the 'shorter days' of Winter.

We have two fried, or poached, eggs each, (almost everyday) for brunch....Just to try and not waste them.
I don't think I'd cope too well if we ended up eating eggs for every meal, though.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Orcs on 20 March 2020, 07:40:02 AM
I think  the panic buyers have bought Kitchen roll as they could not get Loo rol.  Let hope they use the Kitchen roll as loo roll.  It will block their toilets  very quickly   

Nasty, very nasty. No large fresh loaves, and the wine was running low yesterday !

I have a steep unusable back garden. Maybe it's time to consider getting a goat.

Least you got a garden !

Quote from: Techno on 20 March 2020, 07:58:37 AM
I imagine a lot of them don't realise that, Mark. 

With Will mentioning eggs......That's the one advantage of keeping a few chickens.
The ones we've got haven't stopped laying throughout the 'shorter days' of Winter.

We have two fried, or poached, eggs each, (almost everyday) for brunch....Just to try and not waste them.
I don't think I'd cope too well if we ended up eating eggs for every meal, though.

Cheers - Phil

Fresh eggs - you really can tell the difference when you crack them in the pan compared to a supermarket bought egg

Quote from: mmcv on 20 March 2020, 08:38:19 AM
I have a steep unusable back garden. Maybe it's time to consider getting a goat.

Terraced rice cultivation, the way they do it in Vietnam.

I'd love a goat, or maybe half a dozen pygmy goats. Not sure I want goat milk in my coffee but it's nice otherwise.

We've chickens as well, Phil - eight in an Egloo Cube and run, soooo easy to keep! Aside from being "attrition pets" and mostly ex-industrial ladies who've been very roughly handled by our arsehole food production systems

I've six packs of eggs laid up as we can't eat 'em fast enough - usually sell the excess at my wargames club but that's off the table now!

Quote from: Orcs on 20 March 2020, 09:07:04 AM
Fresh eggs - you really can tell the difference when you crack them in the pan compared to a supermarket bought egg

You're right there, Mark....There's no comparison.
Von told me there's an ad on the TV at the mo'......The yolks on those are a pale, anaemic yellow....And I'll bet they taste bland,as well.

Quote from: toxicpixie on 20 March 2020, 09:38:30 AM

We've chickens as well, Phil - eight in an Egloo Cube and run, soooo easy to keep! Aside from being "attrition pets" and mostly ex-industrial ladies who've been very roughly handled by our arsehole food production systems
I've six packs of eggs laid up as we can't eat 'em fast enough - usually sell the excess at my wargames club but that's off the table now!

They soon build up, don't they, Nathan !! ......I'm afraid that some our 'excess' go down the dogs' necks.....or out in the fields, for the corvids and raptors to snack on.
Ours are 'rescues' from a 'free range farm'....(free range is a fairly loose term as far as I understand)......They didn't know what to do when we let them run free. Haven't had any problems with any foxes recently...and long may that continue !!

Their worst habit is getting under your feet when you're outside......"Gimme a peanut !.....Gimme a meal worm !"......... They don't seem to know what "SOD OFF !" means. 

Cheers - Phil.

Hahaha, yeah, that's chickens - we tried to use them one year to weed and de-slug the garden. Wing clip, let 'em loose, punt them off the kale, punt them off the chard, punt them off the other veg round and round in a circle. End result, the garden pests didn't have any of our veg to eat as it all went in the bloody birds

Shop bought eggs - yeah. So anaemic! And the girls that came out the battery farms were horrific, which was all supposed to stop when bat farms were stopped, and tbh it's improved, but... 

Our local farm sell its own eggs, we know they are free range , you can see them running about, and more then once I have had to shoo one back into the yard off the main road.

Every pack of eggs comes with a free chicken?

Shattered nurse .... 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-51966337/coronavirus-nurse-s-despair-as-panic-buyers-clear-shelves

Quote from: Orcs on 20 March 2020, 11:21:27 AM
Our local farm sell its own eggs,  you can see them running about, and more then once I have had to shoo one back into the yard off the main road.

Eggs running about, that why ASDA had none yesterday.  

Lidl today - one woman filled the complete 3m conveyor 3 deep, ridiculous  

Quote from: Westmarcher on 20 March 2020, 12:01:32 PM
Shattered nurse .... 

Heard that on the radio, this morning.....Poor lass.

Cheers - Phil

Apparently as an egg producer you can choose the colour of your yolks, based upon 'colourants' in the bird feed. Heard this on Farming Today or the Food Programme on Radio 4 years ago, so not sure if still holds true today...