I found out today that I should be able to pick up Izzy at my friend's house on Tuesday about 4:00pm. I hope she hasn't forgotten everything she knew before she left home on her vacation/kennel visit. I can't wait to get her back, because, it's for sure - she's the most interesting of the girls.
On the egg front (I know everyone is just dying to here what's going on with the chickens), we had 5 eggs in a row - one each day Tuesday through Saturday. On Friday, we microwaved one and fed it to Halor. She really thought she made out on that deal. That, of course, prompted an email to Dr. Ruth, asking, "Just out of curiosity, is there any value or harm in giving the dogs an egg, either raw or cooked?" (after the fact, typical!). She promptly replied that the white should be fully cooked and one or two a week is fine. Then she added a typical Dr. Ruth-ism ~ "Watch their stools!"
On Sunday morning, we scrambled the remaining four eggs and split them between my friend Tracey, Dennis, and me. Darn good - but really, they tasted like eggs...
Sunday, apparently was a day off for whoever is the early-bird layer, as there were no eggs in the coop.
Today, major disappointment. Jon discovered that the rookie egg-layer doesn't seem to know a thing about gravity. It appeared that today's egg was laid on top of the little hen house, rolled down the roof and broke - VOILA!! ~ breakfast for all six. ; - (
This can be a very bad thing, because you don't want your hens to think eating their own eggs is a good thing - or you won't have any eggs for yourself or your friends or your dogs.
We're pretty sure that one of these gals is the beginner egg provider. Their names are "Dolly" and the other "Dolly" since we can't tell them apart. They are affectionately known as "The Dollies" and are Am Rocks.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Hopefully, our next post will be more about dogs.
XOXO
Patty,
Halor, Piniella, and Sable
4 comments:
I like the egg stories. Makes me feel like I know people who are "country folk" Why would the hens eat their own eggs? Seems very wrong. Hopefully they will get it right by spring so you can have an easter egg hunt.
Apparently, chickens will eat almost anything (not onions, garlic, daffodils and a few other things), so, when the egg broke open, they had breakfast. Luckily, we put them in their house overnight and this morning's egg was intact, in the nesting box.
It's already a bit like a daily Easter egg hunt!
chickens will eat almost anything
kind of sounds like our dogs....
hmm..could they be related--should DNA testing be done
Found out last night that dogs don't like snow peas. All four thought that they would like them, but all four ended up spitting them out. Just hilarious...
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