Who really gives a cluck?
Well. I love a good chicken egg. In fact, I buy my chicken eggs just up the road…. from a very nice family. Thankfully, for me…. they have amazing hens. Otherwise, I’d be right back in line at the grocery store.
I cannot begin to tell you how delightful it is to eat fresh chicken eggs for breakfast every morning. (No worries friends. I have low cholesterol.)
But here is the thing. Eggs have quite the history, if you care to know it. Both birds and eggs preceded man in the evolutionary chain.
And…. our human awareness of the egg begins a long, long time ago. East Indian history indicates that wild fowl were domesticated as early as 3200 B.C. AND… both Egyptian and Chinese records show that fowl were laying eggs for man in 1400 B.C. I guess people back then were really jazzed about eggs to. They made notes of it in history chronicles after all.
More recently….. Europe has had domesticated hens since 600 B.C. Euro-Chicks.
There is some evidence of native fowl in the Americas prior to Columbus’ arrival. It seems right to me. I mean, we have the Toledo Mudhens, and Colonel Sanders and all.
However, it is believed that, on his second trip to the New World, in 1493….. Columbus brought over some chickens related to those now in egg production. Aunt Henrietta, I guess.
But let’s put all that aside for a moment. There have been two age-old questions concerning chickens.
1. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
2. Why did the chicken cross the road?
While I have the answers to both of these questions, I just want to know who started these age old disputes? And why all the calamity around them? Nonsense, I say.
Especially since the answers to both are so very evident, simple, and clear.
But since I have exceeded the maximum number of words allowed in tonight’s project, I will have to go into this another time. I guess it will just have to wait.
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
“I made a funny son and you’re not laughin’ ” – Foghorn Leghorn
Those are some cool lookin’ eggs and the photo design is superb, very subtle, light and dark. Which came first, the photo op or the photographer? Maybe we shouldn’t go down that road…..
All three of those eggs came from the same dozen. Probably different chickens… I would guess.
I think they each came from a different variety of chicken. Although egg color can vary within a variety of chicken, these are very dramatically different.