Eggs for 2-17-2005
9:30 AM – 2 Brown
11:30 AM – 1 White
12:oo PM – 1 Green
1:00 PM – 1 Brown
Total Thus Far: 5
It’s also a good thing: she laid yesterday, and today. It’s a pattern she hasn’t had as of yet, so she may be getting into the laying a bit more now. 🙂
Frank left for a 2-day trip before sunrise, so I was awake then, and went back to sleep. I didn’t wake up then until right before 9 AM 😉
When I got out to the hens there were 2 nice brown eggs in the A-Frame nest box, they weren’t warm, but neither were they as cool as the air. So they weren’t “just laid” nor laid “super early”.
Yesterday afternoon Frank was moving the SuperYard pen by himself, and a Leghorn got out. So he needed my help. Leghorn Catch is a fun game if you keep your humour. 😉
We ended up just moving the pen and would get the straggler afterwards. During the move another Leghorn got out (lumpy land is the reason, raise the pen to go over the lump and then boom, hen ducks under on the other side of the lump.)
So Leghorn Catch was doubled, and we eventually got them. Frank caught them each by the tail. He’s a bit more unsure of picking them up, so I have to go in usually and get the bird. To do that I have to distract them so that he can sneak up on them from behind, or if he can do that while they themselves are just naturally distracted. In the past it works to get them caught in a barricade or something that’ll trap them. Otherwise, they run away from any front or side or rear approach. They are very flighty and it’s a wearisome game.
Given another piece of land, we’d not have to catch the Leghorns, but let them free-range. 🙂