Now we can open our egg store!

"Now we can open our egg store!" Lily said yesterday. We've been regularly getting 4 eggs per day for a couple days now, and even the Araucanas are pitching in with an egg here or there. We think there's one regular double-yolker since we see them with some high frequency. The four regular layers (two RIR and two Plymouth Barred Rocks) are all laying mid morning, so I can make one visit per day to collect. A couple days ago, there was a scuffle because one RIR was momentarily broody, and another hen needed to get on the nest, like, "now". The end result was that I discovered that the nesting box is big enough for two hens to fit in at the same time, with a bit of a squeeze.

Four eggs a day is just about too many for us to eat, so I either need to commit to eating an omlette every morning, or we can start using up the stack of cartons we have by giving some away at the Wednesday potlucks. See - another reason to attend!