Eggs and Chickens

The other day Ken brought in a small pink egg along with the two normal large brown eggs we usually get. It was our first egg from the new batch of chicks! To day, however, we got the first GREEN egg! It  is about the same size as the other egg, extra small, but they are both perfectly formed and look great. I won't know for a while if that pinkish egg was laid by an Easter egger or by one of the Wyandots. 

The colors of the eggs are going to vary. The Easter eggers are supposed to lay pink, green and blue eggs. Truly, the eggs colors are subjective. They can all look green rather than any looking blue and the others can all look brown rather than any looking pink and such. There are a few here and there that are true blue and true pink. The colorful eggs are just cool because when someone who has never seen them before opens the box they get a nice surprise. The smiles on their faces give me joy.

Speaking of chickens, I am so glad I don't have to deal with so many bird feathers in my house now Gav's in school. Crazy beak just sheds her feathers too much when she visits Gavin in the house during the day. I asked her kindly to stop, but if she won't even stop messing on the floor what makes me think she's going to stop dropping her feathers? Gavin, thankfully is not home for her to be visiting him in the house an hour or so at a time, several times a day. Now they can't sit around and watch TV, being little lazy butts, not picking up after themselves. I feel a little sorry that Crazy has lost her daytime buddy, but she'll get over it. She really needs to make friends with the other chickens and stop thinking she's a human. I believe we've spoiled her.

Very soon we'll have to start selling the eggs just to keep them from piling up on us and spoiling. Even with 10 chickens last year we almost had that problem. I hope we have enough buyers out there willing to shell out $2.50 a dozen to help with that. The money will also help Gavin, my 5 yr. old, fill his Piggy bank. We'll only need enough to feed the chicks.

So remember this folks, nothing beats the taste of

The incredible, edible EGG