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  2. Ostrich egg - Wikipedia

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    Ostrich eggs are the largest of all eggs, [4] though they are actually the smallest eggs relative to the size of the adult bird — on average they are 15 cm (5.9 in) long, 13 cm (5.1 in) wide, and weigh 1.4 kilograms (3.1 lb), over 20 times the weight of a chicken's egg and only 1 to 4% the size of the female. [5]

  3. Masai ostrich - Wikipedia

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    Masai ostrich eggs are large (grapefruit-sized) and white in color. [10] [18] They measure 14–16 cm and weigh between 1.0 and 1.6 kg. [19] Egg hatching occurs during October and November, when eastern Africa experiences brief periods of rainfall that generates edible plants that are the Masai ostriches primary food source. [10]

  4. Ostrich - Wikipedia

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    South Africa produces about 70% of global ostrich products, [5] with the industry largely centered around the town of Oudtshoorn. Ostrich leather is a lucrative commodity, and the large feathers are used as plumes for the decoration of ceremonial headgear. Ostrich eggs and meat have been used by humans for millennia.

  5. Bird egg - Wikipedia

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    The default color of vertebrate eggs is the white of the calcium carbonate from which the shells are made, but some birds, mainly passerines, produce colored eggs. The pigments biliverdin and its zinc chelate give a green or blue ground color, and protoporphyrin produces reds and browns as a ground color or as spotting.

  6. Common ostrich - Wikipedia

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    Ostrich eggs are the largest of all eggs, [68] though they are actually the smallest eggs relative to the size of the adult bird – on average they are 15 cm (5.9 in) long, 13 cm (5.1 in) wide, and weigh 1.4 kg (3.1 lb), over 20 times the weight of a chicken's egg and only 1 to 4% the size of the female. [69]

  7. Egg - Wikipedia

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    The default colour of vertebrate eggs is the white of the calcium carbonate from which the shells are made, but some birds, mainly passerines, produce coloured eggs. The colour comes from pigments deposited on top of the calcium carbonate base; biliverdin and its zinc chelate , and bilirubin , give a green or blue ground colour, while ...

  8. The 9 Best Grocery Items for Weight Loss, According to ... - AOL

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    Eggs. Arguably one of the most versatile food of all time, eggs can go with most any meal. Whether it's egg cups in the morning, a hard-boiled egg for lunch or fried rice with eggs for dinner ...

  9. Egg decorating - Wikipedia

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    Scandinavian traditions also involved boiling eggs with flowers inside onion skins to colour them. [1] Another type of egg decoration is the Hungarian practice of egg shoeing, which requires goose eggs and miniature horse-shoes, made of iron or lead. The current world record of egg shoeing is 1119 shoes on a single ostrich egg. [6]