Collecting Eggs

Here is a Dark Brahma in the basket next to a bunch of eggs in the bookcase nest box. The hen is hot and she is panting with her beak open. Poor Baby. I'm surprised and pleased that the hens have taken to the bottom nest box and are laying their eggs there instead of on the dirt. There was one egg in the basket under the hen. I will check back later to see if this hen laid the egg and was just setting or if she is going to lay an egg.

These three were in the top nest box

There was one egg under this broody Golden Lace Wyandotte.

She is so pretty!

And this egg was in the large bottom nest box. See, I really do need to add some more straw to the boxes. But it is so hot I get dizzy out there. Kristine is home so I should be able to get to sleep earlier tonight and get up when it is cooler. I found a bunch of paint and I have been thinking of painting the chicken coop and pen. My first thought was to let the white paint finish falling off and then stain the wood. But that is going to take too long. My brother made this pen and coop originally as a dog pen, and he made it from old horse fencing that was painted white. I really don't like the white, but I may decide to go with it and paint the whole thing white. The door is white, so that would work. Maybe?

I added a comment box in the sidebar that will even translate the comments. How cool is that. I tried it out and it worked, so if it gets used I will keep it in the side bar. Seems like a lot less bother than all the clicking around the regular way.

[11 eggs today]

So far...

(another egg in the basket = 12 eggs today!)

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Eggs?

Isn't Morgan cute. She waits patiently while I open each nest and move the chickens in hopes perhaps of me dropping a chicken in her direction. I move the hens as I look for eggs and Morgan is very interested in the search. She would like to get in the nests and help.

Kristine took this photo for me to post. Over the years I have collected these little stuffed animals. I think they were all mostly gifts and they were so cute that I decided to display them under a counter behind glass doors in a bathroom under the sink. This way they stay dust free and they are there to bring a smile. Cute little critters.

I worked in the garden today and finished cutting back the overgrown plants. I'll get a photo tomorrow and I'll wheelbarrow in some dirt to the garden and plant some potted plants. The chickens got carrot peelings and spinach for treats today. The girls are using the new nest boxes which is a surprise to me. I crawled in under the roosts and cut away chicken wire on the inside of the top nest box so they can use that one too. I'll try for a photo of that tomorrow.

[6 eggs today]

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Collecting Eggs

When collecting eggs lately I find hens in the nest boxes who are all fluffed up and who don't have eggs under them. So, I'm trying to remember the fluffy feather business from last year and can't come up with any mental pictures of setting hens with fluffed feathers. They can't be cold as it is warm out. Tom brought in 10 eggs today! I guess the hens were saving them up?

I had already checked under the hens for eggs before I took this video. I just wanted to show how the girls usually arrange themselves. Sometimes there are two or three all sitting together.

Tom has been up on the roof working on the new antenna he installed. Kristine is still under the weather and I'm fighting off a cold. Thus not much in the way of blogging today. I can add ice cream to the list of stuff not to eat, because I got fortress lights twice now after eating it. Phooey!

Buff Brahma in the top and middle nest boxes and a Wyandotte, Orpington and another Wyandotte in the bottom.

[10 eggs today]

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