Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Time flies, whether you're having fun or not! We've done a good bit of work around the suburban homestead this Spring.

The raised beds are growing pretty well. 
They've gone from empty...





to leafy.

 


It never ceases to amaze me  that you can put seeds 
in a pile of dirt and stuff grows.


The Music Man built a cage for the strawberries.



No, they weren't trying to escape but the chipmunk family 
that lives under that part of the backyard 
was doing all their fruit shopping in my strawberry bed.




The chickens are all healthy and doing fine.
 

The Australorps are turning out to be good layers.

As a matter of fact, I'm kind of over run with eggs at the moment! 


And this was after I gave a dozen to a neighbor this morning!

I just love Spring.









Friday, February 18, 2011

Four Egg Day

 I didn't hear from everybody today but it was real close.

Another good thing about the warmer temperatures and longer days is that the girls have finally started laying eggs again. At Christmas, I had to break down and buy some at the grocery store!

The Gold Laced Wyandottes, Marsalla and Eggbirda were just taking a winter break. The younger Austrolorps, Diana, Florence and Betty are seven months old now and just starting to lay.

A cute little pullet egg next to a mature hen egg.

If the girls keep this up, I'll have to start giving eggs away soon. I have a couple of friends in the area who are going to start keeping bees in the Spring. What do you think, could we trade eggs for honey?

Omlette, anyone?