Category: Eggs

  • Many Things in One Post

    This is my “many things in one post” post. Weather, books, hens, wild birds, etc. The weather has turned mild again. Yesterday it was warm enough not to need a fire upon waking. Last night was warm too. It’s currently in the mid-50’s, and that’s without the sun’s aiding. It’s been mostly cloudy, morelike “light…

  • Eggs for Jan 23 2005

    1-23-2005 Egg Count: No eggs again today. [None yesterday: Jan 22 🙁 ] Total Eggs: 0 Don’t blame them today. It’s COLD! It was 19 degrees this morning when we finally got out of bed. Too cold to get up early. We were up by 9:30am. Wind chill was 7 degrees. Windy Cold day. How…

  • Eggs for Jan 22 2005

    1-22-2005 Egg Count: Total Eggs: 0 Frank and I just went out and checked for eggs, and there were none. That was 1:00 PM. The weather is rather nasty. It’s foggy/hazy very wet mist all the way to the ground, with everything coated with a light wet film of water. The air is supposedly 37…

  • Eggs for Jan 21 2005

    1-21-2005 Egg Count: 12:10 PM – 1 White 1.9 ounces 1:00 PM -1 White 1.9 ounces Total Eggs Thus Far: 2 I’ve checked for eggs a few times today, and there are none yet. Yesterday I collected a warm one at 11am. It’s now about 12pm, so maybe I’ll get something very soon. I just…

  • Wednesday and Thursday Eggs for Jan 19 and 20

    Estimate: 1-20-2005 Egg Count: 8:30 AM – 2 White 1.7 ounces, 2.1 ounces 11:00 AM – 1 White 2.4 ounces 11:45 AM – 1 Brown 1.8 ounces Total Eggs: 4 Estimate: 1-19-2005 Egg Count: 2 White Total Eggs: 2 note: 1 egg was frozen when found Eggs for yesterday and today are a bit confusing.…

  • Eggs for Jan 18 2005

    1-18-2005 Egg Count: 11:15 AM – 1 Brown 1.6 ounces Total Eggs Thus Far : 1 It’s cold. 18 degrees on the F. scale. Brrr! I’ve not donned the gear to trudge through the backyard to check the hens yet. Once I do, this is the post on which any findings will be reported. 🙂…

  • Eggs for Jan 17 2005

    1-17-2005 Egg Count: 10:00 AM – 1 White 1.8 ounces 12:30 PM – 1 White 1.9 ounces Total Eggs : 2 It’s a cold day. It was in the 20’s last night, and supposed to be around 39 for a high today. It’s not bitterly cold though, fairly a mild cold. It’s creeping into the…

  • Saturday and Sunday Eggs and more

    1-16-2005 Egg Count: AM – 1 White 2.1 ounces PM – 1 White 1.8 ounces Total Eggs: 2 We are home this Sunday morning. Still drippy nosed and such, with Dh getting worse, me getting better. About the hens: On Saturday, yesterday, January 16, 2005 — there was an egg in the SuperYard, underneath the…

  • New Eggs

    I checked the hens this mid-morning, and they hadn’t laid anything. It’s 2:45pm and I just got back from checking, as I walked up to the A-Frame I saw that Hawklady was down on the ground. “Good,” I thought to myself, “she must have laid an egg.” Surprise, surprise, when I opened the nest loft…

  • Another First Egg

    It’s 12:10pm, and I finally went out to feed the hennies. No green egg, but in the SuperYard nest box, there was a long skinny white egg! It’s been so long since any of them have laid. 🙂 I was glad to see their box filled with hay and a circular nest depression in it.…

  • First Egg of 2005

    Prize goes to — Hawklady! I was sluggish getting out to the hens today, and just finished re-haying the laying nest boxes and feeding them. This weekend I came down with a cold/virus, minor sore throat, allergy scratchylike really, on Friday, Saturday it was worse, but still not “cold like” but then woke up Sunday…

  • Production is up

    Good day today for the Australorps … Four Eggs … that’s 100% of them laying today! Yesterday we had three. We had a jumbo egg from their pen this past weekend as well. [notable since really big eggs are not often laid by younger layers, and the only other we had from them came the…

  • My Hennies in November

    My hens have been molting for a long time, last eggs we had from them were in August, but not many. The babies, as I call our youngest, still Pullets really, the Australorps, started laying in June, and never really “got into it”. I have no idea why they ALL stopped laying mid-summer. I mean…

  • Australorp Eggs

    Here are some egg pictures. The light brown egg is a Wyandotte egg, and the two darker brown eggs are Australorp eggs. These are the first two Australorp eggs, from Monday and Tuesday. Just shy of 22 weeks of age is when they started. Today, Wednesday, June 30, 2004 they are 22 weeks old. 🙂…

  • Fried eggs: the right way

    I’m making myself breakfast right now, and boy oh boy how I have missed my home laid eggs! I’m using the first two eggs laid, brown ones they are, and frying them as I normally do, in hot butter but on a low heat to gently cook them. They are gorgeous! We have bought the…

  • Lion and Lamb

    Tradtion says that if March comes in like a Lion it’ll go out like a Lamb, visa versa. That’s what I learned as a small child in Pennsylvania. It’s not a useful saying in The South though. In any case, March 1 and 2 have been blustery, windy, but nice days. Lots of wind gusts…

  • Henny Update on Egg Report

    Check out my Egg Report for an update on what’s happening in our Henny Penny world. Henny News

  • Good Things going down

    See my first post for today on my Eggreport. Something different happened when I first checked the hens today. Then see my second post for today on my Eggreport. Something really big happened today, and something cool too. Which is which? Interchangeable, I’d say! Post comments here and there, or anywhere!

  • New Hen Photos

    New photos of the hens. We have four new hens. Click photo to go to the category page for the Henny-pennies. I add the pictures today, May 12, 2003. They were taken [today] with our cheap digital camera, so aren’t particularly wonderful, but they are utilitarian enough to be useful to look at. Our new…

  • Egg Report 2003

    See the Egg Report at the Henny-penny Egg Report … http://www.pastoralfarms.com/eggreport/ I’ve edited this post to refect the change, as I’m now [April 2003] using MT instead of Blogger Pro, as before I was using document.write method to include the egg report in this web log. Our Henny-pennies have their own page now, so please…