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| A new purpose for the old double seater! |
The girls are laying eggs all over the farm! The 40 chicks we purchased in March are starting to lay eggs. In the hen house we have been collecting 13 eggs a day from the nesting boxes. It is so adorable to go into the hen house when a bunch of hens are laying. What you see is a line of chicken faces in each cubical with the occasional rebel turned around backward tail to the wind. The first couple of weeks I easily accepted this low number of eggs as I knew the girls wouldn't all start laying exactly the same day. But in the last week and a half things were just not adding up. This morning we found our answer. We have found little clutches of eggs gathered in various places, for example the old outhouse and the kitchen counter of the old homestead house that is being remodeled. We collected the eggs from the counter and gifted them as a house warming present, then in a little while the little white hen came into the house with the 3 men working jumped up onto the counter and gifted another white egg. Thus is the life of a free range chicken. They believe they can do just what they want when they want. Erik coined the phrase, "Too free range." Sometimes I would have to agree but in light of the egg recalls I'll put up with a little hide and seek. Enjoy the pictures!
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| Out in the open next to the old wood shed. |
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| Eggs laid on Grandma Byrd's soon to be kitchen counter. |
