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    Toddy reacted to Tengu's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    Duck eggs are great. Many are blue or green.
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    Toddy reacted to Falstaff's post in the thread Eggs, with Sad Sad.
    I loved having ducks, lots of decent big eggs that were delicious, fun to watch, kept the lawn down most of the time and easy to care...
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    Toddy reacted to shaggystu's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    I have never flown in a private jet, I'm painfully aware of the burning oil depots in Russia (and all over the middle east), and buying...
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    Toddy reacted to shaggystu's post in the thread Eggs, with Haha Haha.
    No they haven't, they've decided to start using only white eggs in their home brand range. Surely by introducing a policy of only...
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    Toddy reacted to HorseGuy's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    It doesn't make sense. It probably isn't supposed to. The people who tell us we need to change our diets, drive electric cars and...
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    Toddy reacted to Broch's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    Theoretically smaller white-egg layers are around 12.5% more efficient (according to Sainsburys) - they consume less food and produce...
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    Toddy reacted to Nice65's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    Paper straws and brown eggs aren’t going to save the world. Sainsbury’s have little interest either, it’s just advertising and virtue...
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    Toddy reacted to slowworm's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    Not necessarily. When we had hens much of their food was bought in and that had to be grown, moved to be milled, moved to be sold and I...
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    Toddy reacted to ijohnson's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    We get our eggs from about 150 yards away now, but when I did by eggs in the supermarket I did always check them top and bottom after...
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    Toddy replied to the thread Eggs,.
    GFSon1 has bought ducks.....well they were ducklings two months ago, they're huge big things now.....and I wondered at the time, just...
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    Toddy reacted to Nice65's post in the thread Eggs, with Like Like.
    When they stop flying blueberries from Peru and strawberries from Morocco on a daily basis then I might start to believe they’re...
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    Toddy reacted to GeraldTheBonsai's post in the thread Eggs, with Sad Sad.
    Apparently it's because the chickens that lay white eggs tend to be smaller, so the (strained) argument is that they use less food. So...
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    Toddy reacted to Woody girl's post in the thread Eggs, with Wow Wow.
    Sainsbury has banned brown eggs in a bid for net zero. We are constantly told that shell colour makes no difference. Do hens that lay...
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    Toddy reacted to Lean'n'mean's post in the thread Coping with the heat. with Like Like.
    Back to coping with the cold here. :rolleyes: 37°C last week, 15°C this week. The tomato plants are waving a white flag. Have to wait to...
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    Toddy reacted to GreyCat's post in the thread No Mow May with Like Like.
    I mow the patch of mossy clovery grassy stuff at the front, that way I encourage white clover, buttercups and the moss rather than the...
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