Large or Small - I Love Them All
February 3rd, 2010Most of my older hens stopped laying as the days got shorter. Fortunately, I have several pullets that hatched out last year, and those little girls are keeping us in eggs through the winter. And since there are several different age groups, the eggs vary in size between the older pullets and the younger that are just starting to lay.
I just love checking for eggs each evening. I just can’t wait to see how many I’ll be collecting, or the size of each of them. The size really ranges - from itty bitty to extra large sometimes. And even though my chickens are white eggs layers, some of them lay tinted eggs - kind of a pinkish/beige sort of color.
I love my chickens. And I love their eggs. Every stinkin’ one of them.
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:30 pm
We love them too!! Thanks for all you send !!!
I can hardly wait until I get more Hens.
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:39 pm
There is nothing quite like walking outside every morning to collect your breakfast. It does not get any more fresh than that! Yum!
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I know what your talking about it is great going out everyday twice a day and collecting the it is wounderful, and listening to the roosters crowing at 5 in the morning I wouldn`t change it for the world.
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Okay, you’re just being mean—rubbing in the fact that you have fresh eggs!
Kidding. I’m just jealous. Hopefully my new chicks will have surprises for me sometime the end of May.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I agree! One of my babies finally started laying and her eggs are tiny, but they crack me up. Even the yolk is teeny tiny, they’re like doll house sized eggs :o)
I saved up a whole dozen of her tiny eggs and took them to the neighbor who couldn’t quite figure out what to do with them. He said they were too cute to crack.
I love your chicken coop set up, by the way! Tell your hubby he is fantastic and that I’m sure your feathered ladies appreciate all he does for them :o)
February 4th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Oh how I agree with you. I love all of my chickens even the blasted roos that won’t give my girls a break. And how I love those beautiful eggs they leave me as a token of their love for me. ok wishful thinking, but my motto is ‘a happy chicken lays a happy egg’ my son says I suffer from OCD (Obsessive Chicken Disorder) because I am always trying to make things better for my feathered friends.
Oh and I got the smallest egg on Sunday, it was a little smaller than one of those big gumballs but bigger than a marble, and it actually had a little yoke and egg white in it. It was the cutest thing.
February 4th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Look at all those pretty eggs!!! I cant wait to have my own flock so I can collect eggs everyday, too! I cant imagine NOT liking any egg that one of my hens laid….okay, well, maybe those rubbery ones…..:-)
February 6th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Ah. I love reading all your fellow chicken owners’ comments. Someday, someday I shall have a few chickens of my own!
BTW, I couldn’t stay on your blog 2 days ago… it would stay here a few seconds, then it would morph into some other website. The first time it morphed into the China Sex Museum or something like that. I forget where it went the 2nd time I tried, but figured I better stay away for a day or so. WEIRD!
February 6th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
I loved your egg picture!
I enjoy going out to see what my little hens have layed for me too. I have some very interesting sizes from too big to fit in the carton to one that was the size of my thumb nail!! It was way to cute to crack so it has dried out and sits on my counter. I also get green, blue, cream, brown and white eggs. So it is always a susprise for me!! Like my son said to me one day, ” Mom you NEED your chickens because you NEED something to do” !!!!!!! :o)
February 7th, 2010 at 10:46 am
our Mabel has just started laying again….. Janet aint though, I think she is for the pot if she dont buck her ideas up
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