Two of our hens have started laying! Yes! Two eggs a day - one large and brown (from Daffy Duck, the Isa Brown) and one small and white (from Benjamin, the bantam partridge Wynandotte). We are over the moon and having lovely golden eggs every day. Well, at least two of us are having eggs every day.
We lost a hen. Literally - she's just lost. Maxi made a poster to put up on the telegraph pole. It said "One hen. Lost. She is orange." Naturally we're expecting her to be delivered home any day now.
Here's a lovely idea for me to do with all my spare time. Create beautiful Wordy Eggs like Carla Lalli Music did for Bon Appetit. Nice, huh?
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Do you keep chickens?
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Short answer = no...but I did keep a couple of bantams when I was a kid. One speckled..called Speckle..hehe, and one orange bantam called Twinkle..huh?
Yes, we have three chickens, lovely girls they are. Looking forward to spring, they love to wonder around the garden.
Yay! I love chickens... And eggs. I had around 30 when I was growing up on the farm.
Love!!
Clever girls. It's so lovely to collect eggs everyday.
We have 4 Isa Browns, which we bought from a farm nearby. We actually cheated and bought them just as they came into lay, so we've been getting 4 (FOUR!) eggs everyday. At first it was terribly exciting, but now I find myself fretting over who to give all of our eggs to. That's 28 a week. We don't eat that many, so I'm constantly trying to palm them off. In spring we may start a little honesty box system outside our front gate to recoup (get it?) some of the money.
Hope you find your lost hen. We lost all four the other week, but after an hour or so Mr Karen found them on top of a neighbour's mulch heap. Such a relief. x
You're such a good egg Bron. I grew up with six chooks. Every night twas my job to round them up with my icecream container of pellets and call 'here chook chook chook,here chook chook chook'. Good times. xx
NO idea how but our inherited hens have been laying ALL Winter long - in Canberra. We've had up to 5 eggs a day from the 8 ladies. Too many of our chicks are looking far too like Roosters, bummer, but we'll re-home them off the crow, rather than eat them (this time, we'll bread table birds eventually.)
Our children race into the coop after school (i resist collecting eggs during the day so as to not spoil their surprise, unless i'm baking & out of eggs & waiting for one, i've done that before) & they bring them in, date them & write stories on the eggs who laid them, who found them, it's adorable.
Tell your little ones, in the dead frost of Winter, one of our smallest hens laid 3 double yolkers in a row. They weighed up to 84gm & had strain marks on them. Giggles, love Posie
Chooks are definitely in my future. But they will be waaaay down the back yard of my farm, and I will NOT be looking after them......OK, so I probably will, just like the pups and the kitten. xx
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