Lazy ladies, lax about laying

Lovely ladies on the lam

The ladies gave me two eggs today, but none yesterday! I'm not liking those averages.

The Chicken Report

Not much new with the ladies lately. They're laying a little less, now that the days are shorter. We used to have mostly three-egg days, with plenty of 4-egg days and a few two-egg days. Now, two-egg days are the norm, with just a few three-egg days and shockingly, some one-egg days.

We keep threatening them with the stewpot, but it doesn't seem to faze them ;-)

We're not sure if we'll add supplemental light or not. I don't really care if they take a break over the winter, but realistically we'll probably want to have their light on for heat at some point this winter, so maybe we should also use it to slightly extend the day length. I'd be fine with two- to three-egg days. But we'll see.

Anyhoo, they did have an exciting Saturday, with fresh straw and a tasty breakfast supplement of kale and beet greens. They needed the extra fortification for all the moving around and rearranging of straw they had to do.

Happy Labor Day!

We did a lot of laboring yesterday, so we're taking today off. Can't say the same for the ladies, though.

This is the first time we had three eggs by 11 a.m. I take this as a sign that our (slightly) youngest chicken, Babette (or Little Bob), has started laying. We'll know for sure if we get a fourth egg today.

I'm not sure there's anything better than eating eggs within a few hours of being laid (I heard major chicken honking around 8 a.m., so the first egg was probably laid then). We gave the ladies a peach and let them free range for a bit as a reward for their hard work. They enjoy free-ranging, as you can see:

The only thing more fun than digging to China  inside the coop,
is trying to dig to China outside the coop.