WTF have I just read

Crikey! I love chooks… but that is weird!

I use "cock crow" for an early hour of the morning

Or "the crack of sparrow fart" or "stupid o'clock".

Depends

But when do the bells end?

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I suppose we use 'rooster' for the bird that starts crowing at daybreak. Cock, Cockerel, bastard, are also terms I have used.

Town clock strikes every fifteen minutes then does the bongs on the hour! Less annoying than a cockadoodledoo at 5am!

I grew up across the street from a Catholic church with nice loud bells. Not only did it strike (still does) every 15 min (1 for 15, 2 for 30, 3 for 45 and 4 for 60) and the full hours, it also rings the bells at 6 am, 12 pm and 6 pm for the Angelus, several times before mass to call people to church, then during transubstantiation, and a death in the parish is being announced by the church bells too. Which is probably the reason why I slept through two alarms (both training thankfully) when I was out at sea on a ship that had bells rather then sirens.
There were also several roosters close by and some noisy geese.

Rooster is American, and faux polite

Town clock strikes every fifteen minutes then does the bongs on the hour! Less annoying than a cockadoodledoo at 5am!

This has just reminded I had these on my tablet!

Oh bollocks!

Er, why are we calling them "roosters"?

They're cocks where I come from.

I have recently been keeping my eggs in the fridge ( Bastard dogs kept grabbing the off the worktop ).
As for the link, well, they seem nice.

I just watched the court case. Wowsers! That is all I can say.

But if you don’t have roosters, how would you wake up on time?

Absolutely!! That would be old… coming up to half a century.

This cracking eggs into cups to avoid the bad ones technique. How does it work for soft-boiled eggs?

I'm more concerned with getting shell in my egg, so it doesn't apply to boiled eggs. I am happy to just boil eggs if they are in date.

Someone has released a rooster local to us (happens a lot when people decide to hatch chicks but don’t want to keep the boys). I always pray they don’t make it down the road to my girls 🤣

The solution to not having fertilised eggs is to not have any roosters and to collect your eggs promptly before they can turn into roosters!

Roosters are an utter PITA. Make a load of unnecessary noise, and fight all the time.

Eggs kept in fridge at my place for past 40 plus years and no bad ones.
40 years is a good innings for an egg, Helle

I walked into my lab cold room one warm (for Scotland) day and found three of the guys from facilities in there because it was " rrroastin" outside supposedly. They have my permission now to go there whenever they need to cool down.

I have put a baby in the fridge though. It was a walk in fridge and it was 40 degree out. I was there too.

In my childhood we had quite a few fertilized eggs. We had a farm and had our own chooks. It was my job to find the nests and collect the eggs you see. I was very young and afraid that a snake would get me. And those bloody hens would nest all around. So sometimes the eggs were not new ones….🥹 I was an inconsistent egg gatherer.

I was pleased when mum started to buy eggs… and chicken from the grocery shop. Our chooks were scrawny and were not tasty. And I had to hold them while dad chopped off their heads. Then I had to pluck them.

I have much better experiences with eggs and chicken for dinner now that I am not on that farm! And since then, no fertilised eggs. Eggs kept in fridge at my place for past 40 plus years and no bad ones. And I don’t break them into a cup first unless I have to give them a beating before adding.

Fair point.

Wonder if she ever wrote a guide to child care 🤔😆

Could be read two ways though - either someone who's fussy about how her eggs are kept, or a potential serial killer who shouldn't be allowed near small children....

Thanks

It doesn’t.
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