YESSS!!!!
Do delicious, wholesome snacks come out of your best friend’s bottom in the morning? No? Too bad, so sad.
First egg: Friday the 10th. We’ve had six more since. They were supposed to start laying between 20 and 24 weeks old, and it was within a few days of week 22 exactly.
Here’s the thing, though: we think it’s just one of them at it.
I was told chickens change personality when they start laying — they weren’t kidding. Lucia (formerly the shy, dependant one) has become a whole ‘nother chicken. She’s restless and goes off on her own, without her little friend. She follows me around the garden like a puppy. Her comb and wattles have gone bright red and poofy. When you reach toward her, instead of beGAKking and flapping away, she hunkers down, throws her elbows out and waits — presumably a sexual readiness posture (ummm…ewww, Lucia).
The other one is still the same flighty peckerhead she’s always been.
The eggs are so small and perfect…they’re like the Barbie Dream House version. I feel like I should cook them in a tiny frying pan with a tiny spatula. They reckon it’s two bantam eggs to a large fowl egg, but the bantam ones have a higher proportion of yolk to white.
Mmmmm…yolk!
So far, I have eaten two. Fried. On a tiny piece of toast.
September 21, 2010 — 7:50 pm
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