Peek-a-boo

First Dozen

Well, the first dozen we kept for ourselves, anyway! We gave the first five to our friend Laurie who so kindly supplied us with more than a dozen empty egg cartons, and then started collecting for ourselves. We figure these eggs are worth about $50 a piece right now. We made a huge bowl of scrambled eggs with them for breakfast with Gary's family. Next carton will be for our neighbors, for putting up with our chicken noises...

Blue Egg!

We got our first blue egg today, and also another green! Everyone is laying now!

Pinky's Comb

Pinky's comb has been coming in nicely!

Green Egg!

We had a three egg day today. Patsy laid one, Pinky laid one, and one of the Ameraucanas did too! We found our first green egg!

Not sure if it was Digby or Cleo, but we're excited that three of them are laying now. Egg value is quickly depreciating...no longer worth hundreds of dollars a piece. Can't wait to see what color egg our fourth chicken will lay...hopefully soon!

Second Egg!

A few hours after we found our first egg, a second one appeared!

Gary took it from Patsy while she was still sitting on it, much to her disdain. She made a horrible racket for a good five minutes after it was removed. I think we will try and wait until the nest box is unoccupied before collecting in the future.

The Girls Begin Earning their Keep

We found our first egg this morning!

It was actually in the nest box when Gary went to clean it out this morning. And it's good sized and a good shape. Not an extra large egg by far, but also not tiny or oddly formed. It's beautiful! We think either Pasty or Pinky must have laid it. Both have been making some new, rather loud, and sometimes unsettling clucking noises this past week, so we wonder if approaching egg production might have been the cause. We decided to celebrate the accomplishment by frying it up.

We can't wait to see what's out there tomorrow morning!