Friday 3 October 2008

For those of you who have never owned laying hens, a photo ... (Edited Oct. 7)


Here are the first 24 eggs laid by our new Plymouth Barred Rock hens. They are all same-age new layers (some newer than the others!). First eggs are very inconsistent. Check out the 6th egg on the 2nd row; that is definitely a first egg. It's about the size of a quail egg! Some of the larger eggs are likely double-yolkers which tend to occur more frequently when a hen first starts laying.

Update: This morning for breakfast, Iain and I ate two of the big eggs. They were indeed double yolkers :-). Yum!

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