Sunday, August 06, 2006
We don't know who did it, but we do know, one of our Araucanas laid an egg yesterday. It's this itty-bitty little blue-green thing but it's definitely an egg. Whoever laid it was confused as to where she should lay it, and ended up laying it in the grass by the feeders instead of inside in the wood shavings, but that's okay. Maybe she got hungry in the process and didn't realize how close she was to delivering when she hopped out to grab a snack. Hopefully she'll sort all that out as she gets better at the whole process. Lucky, to this day, has never laid an egg outside of her coop and she's dang good at it now. I imagine it's just a matter of days before they all start laying and we'll have ourselves a nice assortment of blue-green, brown and white eggs, approximately seven a day. Guess I'll never be able to ask a neighbor to lend me an egg again. But then again, we're not keeping all seven chickens and pretty soon there will be eight of us Henrichsen chickens running 'round the place--maybe I'll be justified in borrowing an egg or two every now and then. Maybe.
P.S. The egg on the left is Lucky's egg. The one on the right is from the grocery store. And of course, the egg in the middle is the new egg.
posted by Shana # 11:39 AM 
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