pullets eggs??

[cheyenne]

whatever happened to these little eggs,i use to buy them for 2/6 pence whats that now 25P.you would get 24 in a box.

[woofgang]

I my local supwrmarkets, you cna get things called young hens eggs which i think are the same. they are sold in 16's, vary greatly in size and are cheaper than ordinary eggs. Downside is that the size variation makes them not helpful in recipes and the ones I bought seemed to have more bloodspots than usual

[cheyenne]

yes wolfgang these have quite a few bloodspots to?is it okay to eat the bloodspots or should you remove them??

[cheyenne]

sorry should read (had not have).

[pinus]

two shillings and sixpence old is twelve and a half pence new

[cheyenne]

blimey? cheaper than i thought they were.

[woofgang]

I don't think that the bloodspots will poison you but personally I find them gross and would not eat them

[gardenia]

On our route (A1) from London to St Ives, Cambridgeshire I saw a sign saying Pullet eggs available here - it was a farm shop and to be honest we had no idea what a pullet was, now I know!

[New Forester]

A pullet is a young hen. When they start to lay it takes a few weeks to work up to full-size eggs. Bantams of course lay small eggs anyway. "Blood" spots are actually little bits of the lining of the oviduct, and do you no harm at all if you don't mind them. They are not, as some people think, fertile eggs or growing chicks. Commercial egg producers should shine a bright light through (candle) each egg to find the ones with spots, so supermarket eggs should not have them. I think there is a minimum legal size for commercial eggs, and this is why pullet eggs are not widely available -- they are used instead in food processing, cakes etc.