One of our old hens has come back into lay, I found this lovely egg in one of the coops this morning. Yummy!
First Egg of the Year
Posted by Karen on February 19, 2012
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elaine rickett
/ February 19, 2012Makes it all worthwhile doesn’t it
HedgeComber
/ February 19, 2012Eek! I get ridiculously excited about my first duck egg of the year too! I hope that egg was revered and kept all to yourself!
Janie x
wellywoman
/ February 19, 2012It must be really quite exciting to go out and get your own eggs. You can’t get fresher than that.
Chilli Ninja
/ February 20, 2012Yay! It’s amazing how exciting it can be. I love hens and have had lots over the years – we are building our new house & run at the moment for our new hens.
I hope that is one of many for you this year.
shorelineclusterpoets
/ February 20, 2012Nice and dark! We had our first four egg day today (we’ve got four hens who’ve been laying since September, yet we’d not had a day when all four laid).
Karin
/ February 21, 2012It looks like a good shell on that egg, too. Amber hasn’t laid an egg since the 5th of the month and it was quite thin shelled. We’re eagerly awaiting the first egg from our two new Sussex. It should appear in a week or two.
Janet/Plantaliscious
/ February 21, 2012Hurrah – and just in time for pancake day…
Karen
/ February 21, 2012Another one today! Again, good hard shell, deep orange yolk and very tasty!
dvotee
/ February 24, 2012Nice one – congrats ;) So reading this, you kept them to yourself eh?
David Marsden
/ February 25, 2012Hi Karen, mine didn’t really go off lay though one had an awful moult (crouching, miserable and hardly able to walk) and we thought she wasn’t going to make it. Recovered now though. I hadn’t realised moulting can be such an awful experience.
Karen
/ February 25, 2012I did! I admit it! I ate them both *piggy noise*
Hi David, a friend of mine had a hen do exactly the same as yours during a moult, she looked ‘drunk’ and had little coordination. She recovered.
My hens are old for ex battery hens, two are approximately 5-6 years old now. They’re bred to die young, so it’s very special to me to still have two of my orginal girls 4 years on. Two of my other girls are probably just as old but they were kept back in the battery farm longer, being there roughly 2 years. They don’t lay anymore, their ‘bits’ are knackered and they have a few health problems now.
Glad to hear your hen has recovered.