Dirty Dozen

I'll blame the fact that this post

is backwards on the migraine

I got last night.

At least I can see today,

but I am reduced to just doing

mundane things, like

collecting eggs and getting wood for the wood stove.

The photo above shows the eggs

finishing drying.

I then use a pencil and date each egg

and place them in the container,

cover and put them in the refrigerator.

Here the eggs

are getting dried off

after their cold water wash.

I put the eggs on the vent 

to finish drying.

Oh yes, and here

are the muddy eggs

just in from the chicken coop

waiting for their trip to the sink.

I collected eight eggs

and went out later and found this one

to make up the nine eggs you see above.

[there were already 3 eggs in the container]

The post would have made a lot more sense

if I had managed to put the photos in the reverse order. 

Smiles

Mud and Eggs

It just looks like it is going to rain

but the rain we had so far

fell last night.

Morgan and the chickens

don't mind the wet leaves

and muddy spots.

They just plow on through

while they look for their prizes.

I wanted eggs for breakfast

so I checked in with the girls

and got some hard stares.

They wanted me

to go away and come back later.

So, I did.

And this is what I found.

Dirty eggs!

Well, two of them were clean.

Wonder how they did that?

The Hen Cam lady

here (Feb. 20th post) 

says not to wash the eggs!

Except when they are muddy

or dirty, and then she

just washes them off with 

cold water.

The cold water got the mud off just fine. This is the first time I have tried the cold water routine. I usually wash them in very hot water with organic soap if I thought they needed it, but I am willing to learn new ways of doing things.  The scrambled eggs were very tasty!

Smiles