More Eggs

Ok, this is my third and final blog of the day. We had our second out of three chickens lay today. Just waiting on the hold out. Our black and white chicken Rolley Poley has been laying beautiful brown tasty eggs for over a week now (we discovered 4 eggs on Sunday last week).

Today when I walked out to check on our girls Bossy was walking around pissed off! She was squawking and carrying on through the yard. I thought, "Well that's weird they are usually very quiet except for the little clucking they do and when they actually lay!" I closed the lid on the house because it had been opened, but it was going to rain. I went inside to do something else.

Later in the day I came out to check on her. Twitchey (that's our other Rhode Island Red) and Poley were outside the house and came running to me as always. Side note they follow me around the yard because they want me to dig so they can eat the worms. I had been feeling very special, but then realized it had nothing to do with me. I digress. They came running and Bossy wasn't there. I checked the house first and she was in there nestled into the wood chips. Opening the house disturbed her, so she got up and started cleaning up her space; scratching in the chips and making a nice spot. I lowered the roof to the house and went inside. Another side note, I'm very much obsessed with checking on the chickens and the possibility of an egg being out there. It's very novel to me still.

Later (see here's where the obsession comes in), I walked back out to just see how she was. She was out with the other two searching for worms, beetles whatever. Cool! I had been slightly worried we had a sick chicken on our hands. We had lost two of them to the cold earlier in the winter and the nights have been cold here. I opened the room and there laid (no pun intended) a pink egg. PINK!!! REALLY?? Can we just say I'm so excited that my chicken lays pink eggs? I grabbed it and brought it in to show the family. Everyone is super excited about pink eggs right? Well in our house, yes!

What did we do after finding it? I promptly made egg sandwiches on my homemade bread for my husband and oldest daughter, Eden. Yum!

With two laying an egg just about everyday we'll have a good supply of eggs. Now if the third one will get started my egg buying days are virtually over.