24 Hours
I spotted this rather interesting information on another walk with Tico.
It's about how an egg is growing inside a chicken's body.
Here is the translation by google from the info of the webside:
"Formation of a Mobile Egg
A chicken's ovary is located high on the chicken's body, on the inside of the back, roughly midway between the base of the neck and the tail. There, they contain approximately 3,600–4,000 tiny egg cells. In a laying hen, an egg cell in the ovary takes about 7–20 days to grow to the size that later becomes our yolk. Since the hen lays an egg almost every day, several eggs are always developing. Thus, a laying hen always has yolk spheres at different stages of development. Once a yolk is fully formed, ovulation occurs.
The yolk detaches from the ovary and migrates into the egg sac. The yolk sphere remains there for about 15 minutes; this is also where fertilization takes place in all avian creatures, provided there are males. In the adjacent oviduct, which is approximately 65 centimeters long, the egg white then forms around the yolk sphere; this process takes about 3 hours. Then, in about an hour, the egg membrane forms, a thin layer that provides protection against pathogens. In the final stage, the calcareous shell is formed on top of the membrane; this process takes around 20 hours. This is also where the pigments are finally added, for example, in a brown mobile egg.
During the entire formation process, the egg constantly rotates on its axis. This allows the albumen and eggshell to form evenly around the yolk, placing it centrally in the egg.
The final, actual act of laying takes only about 1 minute."
I really enjod the visit of Renfrebar.
The only "problem" is, that everybody wants a part of his limited time.
To make the best out of it I gave him a lift to his brother M. with C. and Baby Pi.. We enjoyed the afternoon a lot. Baby Pi. is such a cutie!
We hurried home where we met H0tamer with Caspar, who just retuned from their evening walk. Caspar ran excited to us - only to ignore me totally, haha. I've no chance against Renfrebar :-D
Than Teba claimed her "Renfrebar"- time ;-) The two have a special bond and Renfrebar understands her often, even we others have no clue what she is trying to say.
H0tamer and Renfrebar made an early night, because they planned to start early the next morning for a long distance walk together (I will add a link to H0tamers blip)
I did the last tasks (dishwasher etc) and wanted to make my entry, but I had the settings wrong on my blip and PS refused to start, because of too little memory left. I was too tired to tidy up my laptop memory, so I gave it a day and so this is another late entry ;-)
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