Meta: Almost 10,000 lines of code for that web page (I have NoScript on by default, I check source to see what I am missing when I get blank pages). But back t

Meta: Almost 10,000 lines of code for that web page (I have NoScript on by default, I check source to see what I am missing when I get blank pages). But back to the main point: When my wife and I moved up to this very rural area of coastal Northern California, we took over dad's chickens. He had been keeping them penned, but we let them out, and the eggs became drastically better tasting. More protein, I assume. It has also taught me that chicken-based epithets carry some weight, they are not the brightest of creatures. We are considering adding a few more this year, we have avoided roosters, so we do not have the risk of fertilized eggs. The trade off is we pay for the odd hen or two, once every couple of years or so. We now enjoy more traditional recipes that use uncooked eggs or lightly cooked - I hadn't realized what I had been missing. I have definitely learned quite a bit, but so much more to go.