We collected the eggs today, not that there were many, as we’ve sent most of the hens to market and it’s the wrong time of year. (Of course, from a chicken’s point of view, it’s always the wrong time of year to go to market).
In fact there were two eggs, and being from bantams, they were both small. One was much smaller than the other. On Monday I weighed three of these eggs and they weighed just over 90 grams, which isn’t much more than one decent egg. In fact I used all three of them in place of the one required for the Grantham Gingerbread.
This put me in mind of a limerick, (which I altered to match the circumstances).
There was a young hen from Devizes,
Whose eggs were two different sizes.
One was so small,
it was no use at all,
But the other won several prizes.