Saturday, July 26, 2008

Day 150

The big egg from Monday was a double yoker!  Josh scrambled them and they were quite tasty!  Since the three on Monday, we’ve gotten an egg a day, for a total of seven.  I wish we knew who was laying them.

In non-egg related news- I opened the blinds in the kitchen the other day to find this right outside our window:

Apparently their new thing is to get up on the deck rails.  They walked all along the rails and one at a time they all slid down the handrail on the steps to get down.

That has continued to be their preferred method of exiting the deck.  I guess even chickens like to have some fun and excitement from time to time.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Day 146

We have EGGS!!!

Josh spotted an egg in the middle of the pullet house today.  When he went to get it out he saw two more in one of the nesting boxes.  We put plastic golf balls in the nesting boxes to show them where to lay the eggs.  That’s what the two white things in the picture are.

Eggs in nesting box

We weren’t expecting any eggs for another couple of weeks and three of them laid eggs today! The chickens are 21 weeks old today.  They usually start laying after 22 weeks.  We don’t know which three laid them since the Barred Rock and Black Australorp eggs look the same (light brown).  We can only say that Miss Prissy didn’t lay one.  BA’s lay 4-5 a week and BR’s lay 3-4 a week.  Polish lay cream colored eggs and their laying habbits vary, but they tend not to lay many.

As you can see, the eggs are smaller than normal chicken eggs.  This is common for the first lay.  They will get bigger as they lay more eggs. 

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Day 126

Ok, this isn’t a chicken, but it’s so cute I wanted to share.  Some mockingbirds(I guess that’s what they are) built a nest in one of the crepe myrtles in our backyard a few weeks ago.  Today Josh spotted two little birds in it.  This little guy has white “fur” on his head, like Miss Prissy.

Here are Mom and Dad watching me from the neighbor’s roof

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