Its a Fowl Thing

The chickens that we got last year are doing well. They've been laying now for a few months and despite the really cold weather that we had, they only slowed down for about a week. We have a total of 31 birds, 3 of those are roosters so that leaves up with 28 hens(that's the extent of my math skills). Right now we are averaging 15 eggs a day so I don't that they are all laying, at least not every day but this summer things could really pick up even more. I'm going to have to find some more recipes that require lots of eggs!

Here are 3 faithful layers that are sitting on eggs everyday. Its amazing how many eggs can fit under one chicken-especially the little white bantam in the middle.

Good egg sitters!

The 'fruits' of their labor.

A couple of the other little faithful bantams out on a limb-gotta stretch their legs occasionally.

Today's gathering, so far, has totaled 17.

I bet you counted them, didn't you?

They haven't quite all figured it out though when it comes to consistency in size-we get a wide variety with a few extremes.

On one side, we get a few of these really little eggs that usually are yolk-less. Wouldn't bakers love it if they could get yolk-less eggs? I've got to try to figure this out-may be profitable.

No we don't have geese or ducks-this is a long, double yoker, chicken egg-I'm sure she felt better.

It must be a fowl thing-fresh eggs anyone?