Lots of Eggs

This blog seems to have turned into a chicken blog but maybe that's what happens when you have something new and interesting. Some day this will turn into the baby blog, but not soon enough for my mother. Speaking of babies...well, actually, the chicken equivalent: eggs. First the update: Shortly after the last post Richard came up to help me build a fence for the chickens to give them another layer of protection and keep them from destroying the rest of the yard. While we were doing that, Vero searched for chickens on Craigslist and found plenty. You can find anything on Craigslist...really, anything. The first people to get back to her had a couple laying hens in Petaluma only ten months old, so she and my cousin, Gennie, went to get them while Rich and I finished the fence.

A couple hours later we had skipped the whole chick raising process and went straight to egg producing hens. Buyer beware, though...the other people were getting rid of theirs because they were too noisy. Okay, I mean how noisy could they be? Well let me tell you,  some days they make me want to go back to the rooster. At least he crowed and then waited ten minutes before doing it again. These ladies just cry and cry; I can't even describe the noise they make but it's enough to drive me crazy some mornings. But hey, we were getting eggs on a regular basis.

And then a few weeks ago Shakira, the remaining Arucauna, started laying. Check out the tiny blue egg:

Now we're up to three laying hens producing at last count over a dozen eggs in one week. Our remaining chicken, Clementina, looked like she might never lay but today she laid her first so we're about to have more eggs than two people can handle.