In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> >
> > The thing is, in order for a fertilized egg to turn up with a visible
> > embryo, the egg would have had to be incubated for a few days. 24 hours
> > and all you see is a slightly larger whitish round spot on the yolk.
> >
> > Most blood spots are not developing chicks. Trust me. ;-)
> > And they are rare to zilch on grocery store eggs due to the
> > sorting/grading process.
> >
> > Ah, here we go:
> >
> > http://www.georgiaeggs.org/pages/bloodspots.html
>
> Cool! Thanks.

I had to have learned something after raising chickens for several
years. <grins> is one of the better (moderated)
e-mail lists.

> >>MMMmm... Crunchy, chewy and juicy all at once. ( Baluts)
> >
> >
> > JRT's are interesting dogs. <lol>
>
> Yeah. For the most part they are not Wishbone, or My Dog Skip, or
> whatever that dog's name on Frasier was. They are bred to go to
> ground.... To follow quarry into its own pitch dark lair and do battle.
> They are yappers, front door doingers, cat killers, diggers, escape
> artists and toddler snappers They are not easy dogs to keep.

Nope.
I've known people that were their care takers.
Superballs and wonderful companions.

>
> But Cooper, my JRT (aka "the Spanish Inquisition", aka "that damned
> jack") allows my flyball club's B-team to dominate the division they
> compete in. Three big, slow dogs loping along, and your adversaries
> start to relax, passing a little wider, thinking, "We've got this one in
> the bag". Nobody expects a sub-five-second height dog on a division 4
> or 5 team.

<lol> Sounds similar to my BC, only more diligent!

>
> Hence the nickname, from an old Monty Python skit.. Character
> responding indignantly to queries upon arriving home late:
> "Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"
>
> Antique Catholic priest leaps through doorway, brandishing a crucifix,
> shouts:
> "NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!"
>
> > My Lab Chows will eat eggs whole, shell and all!
>
> My BC, Zane, has stolen eggs off of the counter a couple of times. My
> bad. I forget he has the amazing elastic extendo-neck and prehensile
> lips. He dropped them on the floor, licked up as much as he could and
> left the shells to glue themselves to the pergo.

<g>

Jewely knows better. She always asks permission.
She is a BC: http://i15.tinypic.com/2m4zy2r.jpg

>
> Scully, the othr BC has eaten at least a couple of hardboiled eggs,
> shell and all. This usually happens on Easter morning, and the egg is
> gobbled down at a dead run in order to avoid sharing with jealous
> housemates.

Sounds like a Border Collie to me.... <lol>
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