Posts Tagged With: free range eggs

Why Chickens?

As I enter this annual spring dilemma about baby chicks, the question  “why chickens?”  is a question that begs to be asked again.  For me it is very simple I like to know where my food came from.  I am not extreme, in that I know living in a high cold desert I can’t  do [...]

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Eggs – All Shapes, Sizes and Colors

Yesterday I gave eggs to  friends and they remarked on what a lovely dozen of eggs they were.   All the various colors, sizes and even shapes. That comment made me take a closer look. I have ten laying hens right now and though some of the eggs are too similar for me to tell apart, [...]

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At Last!

At last all my hens are laying.  I have been waiting for this day since March when I bought new chicks to add to my flock this year.   Today at 21 weeks my Jane, my Australorp, laid her first egg.  Beatrice who is three weeks older than her laid her first egg last week.  Now [...]

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