As sure as eggs is eggs
Get your head around these eggs-ellent facts and impress friends and family with your knowledge
of different colours. 3. Decorate the egg shapes with buttons
QUESTION: What does a French person eat for breakfast? Answer: An egg. Why? Because one egg is un oeuf.
And that’s enough of that.
Eggs are everywhere at the moment and quite rightly so.
It’s spring, so birds are busy in their nests and there are plenty of chocolate eggs around thanks to Easter.
Read on for our top 10 cracking facts about eggs.
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1. Chicken eggs are usually brown and white but can be many colours including blue, green, or pink.
2. An average hen lays up to 325 eggs a year. It takes her more than 24 hours to produce one. or card shapes.
4. Glue the eggs along a length of ribbon.
3. The older the chicken, the larger the egg. Muffy (USA, 1989-2012) is the oldest chicken on record. The Red Quill Muffed American Game lived to the age of 23 years, 152 days.
4. The Guinness World Record for the largest chicken egg belongs to Harriet from the UK. Her whopping egg, laid in 2010, had a circumference of more than 23cm. 5. Hang your bunting up to decorate your home. 5. The largest egg in the bird world is laid by the ostrich. On average, it measures 15cm long, 13cm wide and weighs 1.4kg. The bee hummingbird has the smallest egg, just 12.5mm by 8.5mm (about the size of a baked
bean). Its nest is just 3cm across.
6. A sea turtle lays up to 100 eggs in warm sand. The temperature of the sand determines the gender of the hatchlings. Cooler sand produces males while warmer sand produces females.
7. As far as we know, all dinosaurs laid eggs. Since the 1980s, rare fossilised eggs have been found
on most continents.
8. In Old English, ‘yolk’ was a word for yellow. Egg whites and egg yellows makes sense!
If you’ve heard that the yolk in a flamingo egg is pink then unfortunately this is not true. It’s reddish orange.
9. Friday, October 11 is World Egg Day. This celebration was established in 1996 by the International Egg Commission.
10. Most insects lay eggs, including dragonflies, grasshoppers, wasps, bees, beetles, ants and butterflies.
In an ants’ nest, the queen is the only ant that can lay eggs.
Female common house spiders, meanwhile, can deposit as many as 250 eggs into a sac of silk.