Eggs!

I could hear one of our chickens cackling in what sounded like distress. I rarely hear them unless they are stuck on the wrong side of the fence going into our existing garden or when one of the dogs chases them in fun. This kept on going so I finally decided I should investigate. As I walked out I noticed none of them came running, which is unusal. I thought they must have jumped to the neighbor's yard....not good. Then Rolley Polley came walking out of this tunnel we have for the kids to play in and the other two came from another part of the yard. Ok, they're fine!

Then I saw it. The first egg in the chicken house and beside it was another. I was so excited!!! I grabbed one and ran into the house and showed Jerod who raised his fist in victory! We've been waiting a long time thinking maybe our beautiful girls wouldn't lay. The weather has been so strange and sometimes so cold for this area, so I held out hope that once the weather started to level out we'd see something. Fingers crossed. Well, we were rewarded for our patience!

I ran back out to grab the second egg and remembered Rolley Polley had been cackling and carrying on from inside the kids tunnel. I looked and there I found two more eggs one of them still warm from being laid. Amazing! I came in and showed Jerod that we were now going to eat 4 farm fresh eggs for breakfast! I did the test for freshness and they are only a day or two new!

I cannot wait to be able to scratch organic eggs off my shopping list for a while! I'll post pictures of what they look like prepared. But here is what they look like now!