Question for those of you who have chickens

I get my eggs from someone with chickens a few miles from the house. This morning while fixing breakfast, I found this when I cracked one of the eggs.

Neither of these photos really shows the deepness of the reddish-pink of the egg white.

Not sure if the egg was safe to eat or not. I saved it to show the gentleman. He said he'd never seen anything like it, either. He insisted I take two eggs to replace the one; and said if I ever had problems with any of the eggs, to please let him know.

So, how about it? Any ideas? Anyone else seen anything like this?

Take care. ♥

Thanks for the award, CCC!

I'll put it here for now, as I am HTML challenged and clueless, haha. But thank you so much, CCC! :)

Sweet blog award. Thank you!
I'm supposed to pass this to 10 people, so here goes!

1. My brother. Should be a landscaper, but he runs his own salon and landscapes his own back yard. Does a fantastic job! Visit Wayne's World to visit my closest of 5 brothers. I wish I had just a little of his talent. ;) He shares photos of his trips, gardens and the hundreds of flowers and plants he has.

2. My oldest boy. He and his wife and daughter are living the great adventure in England! She is going to Royal Holloway University of London. It's been a big adjustment for them all, but I am so proud of him and what he has accomplished there. Visit Chris and check out his other blogs, too.

3. My sister-in-law, who I am getting to know through the internet. She's going through a rough time right now, but I want her to know I love her a lot!

All the rest of you, haha! I am getting to know a lot of you through your blogs.  Some of you I don't know personally by name, so forgive me for that please. :) But I found all of you through common interests or through blogs that I read and I am learning a lot from you as I get to know you. :)

4. Pam, who farms in Georgia, hence Life on a Southern Farm. She and Farm Man are an amazing couple. I am learning a lot about farming in the south from her blog. Her's was the first blog I found through the common interest of chickens. :) If you raise chickens, I think his chicken nesting boxes are the way to go. I am going to talk my hubby into buying some.

5. Randy actually lives just North of me. Found him through Pam's blog. Chicken Boys are kind of beginning farmers, too. Or homesteaders. Not sure I know the difference. But I enjoy reading his blog. :)

6. Callie of Chickens on the Porch. She free ranges her chickens and that's what we will be doing, too. We'll need all the help we can get keeping the bug population down and if we can do it without poison, so much the better!

7. Melodie over at Laughing Duck Farm. She lives in Texas, so another Southern perspective to help me learn. A city girl needs all the help she can get. ;) I love reading her blog, too.

8. Garden Gnome I'm learning a lot about cooking over at Mom's Cafe Home Cooking. I didn't learn how to cook until after I was married. Sad, I know; and then I learned to save myself because hubby put BBQ sauce on everything. Meat, potatoes, rice, vegetables. Don't get me wrong, BBQ sauce has it's uses, but ugh, haha. Now it has to be Mushroom Soup on everything. ;)

9. Matt over at Foothills Poultry. Chickens and cats. What more can I say? I just enjoy reading about his chickens. And he's got a couple good links there, too.

10. Thomas over at A Growing Tradition takes some of the best photos. He's got a great garden, too, and between him and my brother, I really want to try growing potatoes on my own. :)

There are a lot of other blogs I enjoy, so you're all welcome to this award too. I try to read all my blog-world friends every day. I'm learning a lot about different ways of life and a lot about things I want to know about.
Thank you all for sharing your lives with me. And thank you, CCC for sharing this award with me. :)

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It was 81 when I got up at 6:30 this morning. Now it's 76 with rain and thunder. I wish that those of you who need some rain are getting some! Have a happy Wednesday!

Is it ever too early to pick your chicken?

Since I know absolutely nothing about raising your own food - other than  playing at gardening a few times - I have been doing lots of reading. Hubby knows, or knew, a lot about it, having grown up on a farm; and I expect it's like riding a bike - you never really forget.

His grandmother raised chickens. A bunch of big white chickens, haha. I saw pictures of them and that's all I know about them. I do know that we tore down the chicken coop the year we lived there in 94, because hubby said it couldn't be salvaged. It hadn't been used in decades. :/

Anyway, I read blogs of interest to me to see what other people do and think; as well as Grit, Hobby Farms, Countryside and Small Stock Journal, and Backyard Chickens. I'm also reading Old House Journal. And whenever an issue grabs my attention, I read Mother Earth News, Hobby Farm Home, and other random magazines. Sometimes I wish I had a photographic memory, but I guess I read all this stuff hoping that some of it will stick.

He wants a chicken that lays Jumbo brown eggs. From what I've read, you only get jumbo eggs from chickens that are just starting to lay eggs. Then again, there is a place that advertises in Backyard Chickens, claiming all their chickens always lay jumbo brown eggs. Braggs Mountain Buff, I think it was. My memory is definitely not photographic, haha. But I've read differing opinions - normal, I'm sure - some have not had a problem, some have had lots of egg bound hens. Many haven't tried them because they're a small strain available only from the one breeder. They're a strain of the Buff Orpingtons.

The reading I did today, for some heritage breeds, I liked Australorp, Dominique, Sussex and Wyandotte. They all have brown eggs, not sure the size. But they're adaptable, the Dominique is recommended as a good free range breed, while the Sussex and Wyandotte are supposed to be good tempered.

Oh well. Much more reading to do. Still have a year or so, I think, before we can actually have any. We're also thinking some ducks - he wants domestic mallards. Likes the color. And probably a couple of guinea hens and a pig. He says we'll get a couple calves from one of the local dairies, but from what I've read about dairy farms, I'm not real comfortable about that. Maybe if they're small local dairies it'll be okay.

I thought about goats, too; not just because Pam's are so darn cute, but because they're supposed to be good for eating poison ivy and other brush. And we definitely get a lot of poison ivy around there. Maybe we can just 'rent' some when we have stuff to clear.
I am really hoping we'll get the poison ivy cleared before we get a lot of animals. Right now we rely on Round-up and calm burn days.

Oh well, that's enough contemplation for today. ;)