Tastee delights!

We left the ladies in the caring hands of our neighbor while we were camping last week. She got fresh eggs  (and two bottles of wine) as a thank you.

The girls had much to tell us when we got home (they are very chatty, and had a week's worth of news). They made good headway on their excavation-to-China project, and left us two perfect eggs, one in each nest box. We got two more today (since we know three of the four chickens are laying, I want to know who the slacker hen is!).

It's quite nice to have them for (chatty) company while working in the vegetable garden. They were rewarded amply, with greens and calendula blossoms and their first ever tomatoes (we had a few that had split while we were gone). Now that's good eating!

Eggapallooza

As of today, we have three laying hens!

Coco has granted us a small, perfect egg every day except Thursday (she was tired), and Lady Marmalade and Miss Buttons started laying today.

Lady Marmalade (she may be alpha chicken but she's acting like a dumb blonde) laid her egg out in the coop right under the hanging feeder. Miss Buttons laid hers in the hen house, but not quite inside one of the nest boxes.

Babette is younger than the other three ladies, so she should be laying within the next week or two.

So exciting!

Good eggs, from a good hen

Today is Day 4 of farm fresh eggs from our own lil' urban farm. I think Coco is still the prize hen...the other ladies best get their feathery egg-laying butts in gear!

I haven't been home for breakfast in the mornings, so Jeff has been the one to enjoy the fruits of the hen's labor. He tormented me by e-mailing me this photo yesterday:

Sigh. Doesn't it look yummy? I hear that it was.