Mother of seven, natural soap maker, software analyst.
Owner of Kelley & Kate. Contemplative Christian.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Our first BLUE egg!
FIVE eggs today...and not only did each of the ladies "pay the rent", but today we got our very first BLUE egg! Thank you, Sage! (Guess who's "Chicken of the Week"?!) The bummer? We still can't eat the eggs because of the wormer. (The white egg in the picture is a store-bought egg thrown in as a color reference.)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Three eggs today!
Why all the excitement, you ask? Well, I have read that pullets are supposed to start laying at about 20 weeks, but that was 8 weeks ago! Everyone assured me that my pullets would begin laying at some point, but I was starting to lose hope--especially as the daylight hours began to shorten. (Chickens often stop laying due to shortened day length during the late fall and winter months.) I was beginning to think that I had the only pullets in all of chickendom that would never lay eggs. (Parsley's sisters over in the Baergen coop have been laying for weeks--maybe even months!) But today was the day, and oh glorious day, because at least one little pullet has finally started laying!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Isn't it ironic...
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