Green Eggs

It is a beautiful sunny day. Animals are fed and there are 3 eggs from our young hens. They are just over 6 months old with 3 layers and 6 slackers. They lay multiple shades of green eggs. After having a rainbow assortment of egg color layers, we decided on green as they stand up in the pan better than either brown or white eggs. White eggs were the flattest eggs and runnier. One hen just started laying yesterday as the egg was darker than the other 2. Sad thing is that it froze overnight. I gave it to one of the dogs. She was thrilled and ate it away from the other 2 dogs.

We got the hens (as we have all our chickens) online at Murray McMurray Hatchery. The chicks arrive at the post office healthy and noisy! We get a call first thing to pick up the chicks before they drive the workers crazy. Baby chicks are born containing enough food and moisture to make it a day without and are sent overnight to the local post office. Setting up a place warm enough without grid electricity is not easy and has required us to raise them in our home for the first few weeks. That gets old fast. This year we got extra chicks and a neighbor raised the brood and we gave him half the chicks.

That is one of the things I love about this area:  people love to help others and payment is optional, negotiable or bartered. Yes, we paid him in chicks. Not worth much in $$ but worth a lot to the soul.

Sunny days bring out the hornets/wasps, whatever it is in the house. Seems they find someplace out of sight until the sun shines warmly through our windows. Grrrrr. I really do hate that. I can hear the low buzz of one flying around the house now. It lands occasionally on a window. If I wasn't so afraid of flying bugs with stingers I would catch and release as I do with harmless bugs. Wonder where the shotgun is . . .

/hugs

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