We shell not be beaten

Tu-Tu is a lovely looking little bantam, a beautiful Lavender Pekin.   She's a real fluff-ball and when you pick her up to give her a cuddle, she weighs next to nothing.

Tu-Tu

The outside of this chicken may look delicate, flimsy and fragile, but I strongly suspect that she's made of tempered steel on the inside.  The reason for this suspicion lies with her eggs.  

When I've needed to crack eggs to cook with, I've always found Tu-Tu's much tougher to open than anyone else's.   As an experiment, we threw one into the field behind the garden (we knew the crows would be delighted to clean up after us).   There's a 6 ft drop from our garden to the field, so we just tossed the first one in.   Now we'd see how tough the shell of Tu-Tu's egg really was.  It bounced and rolled, but didn't crack, not even the tiniest bit.  

Well we couldn't resist it, could we (and after all, crows have to eat too).   So a few days later, we threw another one in, rather higher than the first one.   It bounced and rolled, but didn't crack, not even the tiniest bit.

By now, we were determined to break one, and grabbed Tu-Tu's next egg practically from underneath her.  This time, my son threw it as high in the air as he possibly could.   Up, up, up it went, curving lazily round before plummeting to the ground.   It bounced and rolled, but didn't crack, not even the tiniest bit!!!!

So we gave up wasting Tu-Tu's eggs (much to the disappointment of the crows).   Well I know when I'm beaten.