EGGS!
We haven’t blogged in awhile, which is partially due to the fact that we’re so dang busy collecting eggs and being chicken influencers. We have like a whole one hundred instagram followers, so I guess you can say we’re pretty big deals, although Elan is really upset that the Chicken Daddies calendar people haven’t called him back.
All six of our chickens are hens! That was an exciting thing to finally be able to confirm as, one by one, they all began laying eggs. Four of them started the same week – the week that we were on vacation in September – and the other two, our screaming Delawares, started a few weeks thereafter. We now collect between 3-6 eggs a day.
Some fun things we have discovered about their eggs:
-Bubbles & Doorknob lay pale tan/almost pink eggs. They’re both pretty consistent with their laying, despite being the latest starters. They are also real nest-rustlers and have been responsible for breaking a few along the way. Before the lay their eggs, they SCREAM.
-House lays sizeable medium tan eggs that often have slight speckling. Her eggs are always on the larger size, and she’s been our only (so far) to lay a double-yolk.
-Chickaletta & Carly lay the least frequently, probably 3 out of 7 days, but they have medium sized, medium-tan eggs. One of them laid a fart egg. It’s so adorable we haven’t been able to eat it yet. Sometimes Chickaletta goes so far back into the nesting box to push out her egg that she smooshes it on the wall.
-Cutie Pie is our only white egg layer and she lays very consistently, probably 5 per week. She also is SUPER neurotic about her egg laying and will visit the coop several times, screaming and going in and out of the different nesting boxes, until she finally can’t hold it in anymore and lays the egg. Twice now, she has come running out of the nesting box when I’ve come outside, upon the promise of sweet, sweet mealworm treats, and laid an egg right where she’s standing, without even taking a pause between eating mealworms. She has also multiple times laid her eggs in the run – not in covered/protected places, just because she couldn’t decide which nesting box to go in and then hadn’t worked on her Kegel exercises enough to hold it in. She’s such a weirdo.
Also, Elan bought an egg stamp on Etsy. It’s supposed to say Meaty Cluckers but instead it looks like MEATY clurserhsfsofsf. BRANDING.