Keeping Chickens

Three eggs per day, hip-hip horray!

Our veggie growing neighbours told us that our chickens had laid three eggs on some of the days that they looked after our chickens for us whilst we went away.

Well it looks like they’re right.

We seem to be getting two eggs laid in the morning and one egg laid in the afternoon. It kind of stresses the importance of checking the chicken coop for eggs on a regular basis.

I also think that our afternoon layer may be laying them around the garden if they are out of their run in the afternoon.

We’re going to have to do some searching to makesure she’s not laying her eggs in some secret nesting spot.

So we now are getting three eggs per day from our chickens…

Over the the last few days we’ve given most of our home laid chicken eggs away. The comments we’ve had back from our ‘guinea pigs’ have been very good.

My Mum and Dad took a few of our chicken’s eggs home with them the other day. Funny thing being is that my Mum said she couldn’t stop thinking about the chickens playing in the garden as she boiled her and Dad’s eggs… Hmmm I wonder if she feels the same way about shop bought chicken eggs?