Henniversary!

I can't believe it's already been a year since we got the chickens. I'm thanking my luck that it's been an uneventful year without any major disasters and my skittish little chooks have grown into cheeky and very greedy girls.

I've been keeping an egg tally to see how many eggs the hens have laid so far and the results are in... During their first year, the chickens have laid a total of 594 eggs: Bella the Bluebelle 308 pale cream ones and Cissy the Speckledy 286 slightly darker (and sometimes speckled) ones. Bella started laying November 11th last year and although Cissy didn't start until December 16th, she's slowly catching up. The smallest egg so far was Bella's very first attempt, weighing only 43g, and the largest a whopping 83g double-yolker laid by Cissy.

Our second chicken keeping year will start tomorrow with a worming party!

Double-yolker!

I nearly missed spotting our first double-yolker, but here it is! It's the extra large egg (weighing 83g) that Cissy laid as a thank you for spring cleaning the coop. Of course I'd heard of double-yolkers before, but for some reason it didn't occur to me that we might get one. Now I know to be on the lookout for another one. 

Omelette for lunch, I think.