Well, here on the Funny Farm, it was most definately the chicken. And we recently added a new member to the Funny Farm Flock. She's the first of three little bantams that I've acquired from one of my co workers. We're still waiting on the other two (They're having trouble catching them), but for now, we have Eleanor, and she is a new favorite on the farm. She is a leghorn bantam variety, and because she's smaller, she lays these darling little pale peach colored eggs. But don't let her size fool you. This little lady is an egg laying dynamo. She has gifted us with an egg a day so far. Of course it takes two of her eggs to equal a normal sized egg, but we don't mind.
My eldest son, Xander, was really excited. That's him, in the picture, holding our first egg. You would have thought she layed THE golden egg. He was however, a bit disappointed to not be able to hear the "peeping" inside the egg when he held it to his ear. But after he received a brief explanation of the "birds and the bees" of chickens, he soon replaced his disappointment with an eagerness to have his new egg for breakfast. And me? I find it hilarious that I get so giddy with each new egg I find in the nest. It's like I'm a kid again. I can't wait to check the nest every morning, and I feel like I'm lining up little treasures on the refrigerator door.
So now, we're anxious for the rest of our ladies to start laying. I encourage them to hurry up every morning when I let them out of the coop, and I bribe them with treats, but they just ignore me and go about their day picking and scratching in the garden. Now, if these little ladies lay like they're supposed to, we should be collecting at least 2 to 3 dozen eggs a week. Whoo hoo! I can't wait. How fun will that be to gather all those eggs in the morning? But then again, I guess I shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch....get it? ha ha ha!!!!!
So until next time... Happy Farming !
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