K and E have long been the "chicken kids."
Allowance does not come easy in a household of six plus kids so K and E started selling eggs a few years ago. Lately however the chickens have not been cooperative. Over the last few months we have added on to their coop, introduced new "girls" to the flock, went through winter and had to break up a few chicken arguments. I think that they all went through a rather long molt and period of stress. They haven't been laying more than 2 - 3 eggs a day for over 6 months - not even enough for our family let alone for K and E to sell. Last week I even ordered six laying hens hoping to boost our egg production.
(Shhh don't tell the the man... he thinks we have too many hens as is! )
So imagine our surprise when the kids went out to the chicken coop yesterday and collected 81 eggs! Eighty-holy-moly-one! As Ricky Ricardo says, "Wha' hahpen?"
The weather has been great - in fact it has been beautiful and the girls have been getting along much better - so I don't know - maybe they were just making up for lost time.
K and E were beside themselves and sold 4 dozen eggs yesterday.
They are saving up for healeys - you know those shoes with wheels on the heals so kids can glide.
2 comments:
Wow! Congrats on 81 eggs. Wish I was closer - I'd buy from you!
Deborah
I wish you were closer too - I need to get rid of these! I think that I heard that you can freeze whole eggs...hmmm
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