041 – eggs.
so the holidays are over. i went shopping several times with my mom over christmas – and came back with a lot of questions. and one big one: eggs. we were in the grocery store and my mom was checking things off the list and stuff and she looked at me and said, ‘go get a dozen large eggs.’ I thought why ‘large?’ so i head over, past the milk, past the cream cheese, and land at the eggs.
i look down to see five different types of eggs! there’s medium, large, x-large, jumbo, and…….brown. it was awesome. who knew there were this many types of eggs? then i started thinking, ‘who is the person who sits around and seperates all these eggs?’ that job would be a blast. then my little industrial brain sluffs it off with the fact that i’m sure there’s some machine that does it. oh wait. these are eggs. they’re like, really breakable. okay, so maybe there’s like different kinds of chickens. like a medium chicken would make medium eggs. and extra large eggs would come from ‘extra large’ chickens. so…brown eggs come from…
maybe there really is just some poor soul who sits around all day deciding what size eggs are. i would want the color job though – that would be easier.
fall out of line 
I think it is the chickens bit, but if it is the person that decides I’ll put in a good rec for you.
actually, the older a chicken gets the bigger its eggs get. But only for three years. Then a chicken stops laying eggs and you have to fry it.
My dad had a chicken that laid her last egg at age 13 and lived almost 2 more years. After 6 months chickens get too tough for anything but broth. I raise mine for eggs and pleasure. Araucanas/Americanas lay in hues of green/blue colored eggs, they begin laying at 6 months and that is when you know what color you will get from a hen and that is the same color it will lay for the entirety of its like. The first few eggs can be small and egg production stops when the hen molts, but continues after about 2 months when the molting is done.