Tuesday, November 20, 2012

What came first? The chicken or the egg?

Well?  In my case, it was the chicken!  I have been waiting since August 27th when we decided to build a chicken coop for eggs.  I got my chickens and then got three more.  I had two eggs from the Aracauna's the first two days I got them and then have had none since.  Someone had recently told me that the Barred Rocks probably wouldn't lay until spring.  We put a light inside to encourage them and I had just decided to not worry about it this year and unplugged the light. 
I got my first egg this morning!  It has to be from the Barred Rocks because it is a small brown egg and a bit smaller than the ones I've been getting from my good friend at work Cheryl.

I did encourage them by putting plastic Easter eggs in all of the next boxes about a week ago.  They took two out and left one in the box.


Doesn't my first egg look lonely in the basket?

Here is the inspiration. :)

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