Friday, August 21, 2009

At Last!

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One of our chickens has finally laid an egg! I suspect it was a Speckled Sussex, as those two are always in and around the chicken coop. It's a little on the small side, but it's an actual egg! What a feeling to put my hand in the nest box and feel an egg inside the bed of straw! I'm so proud!

* Go hens! *
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9 comments:

  1. Karen MayesAugust 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM

    Congrats :o) What a beautiful natural looking egg...

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  2. TeeeeeenaAugust 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM

    Save that egg and frame it???? Put a little hole on top and the bottom and blow the inside out. LOL! Put the picture of both chicken you suspect as background to that egg laying at their feet. LOL!
    Im glad for you!

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  3. jennyAugust 22, 2009 at 8:30 PM

    Karen-- It is a beautiful egg! :o) Thanks!

    Teena-- LOL! I'm trying to get a pix of the hen but today was a rainy gloomy day. Will try again tomorrow. :o) xoxo

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  4. Lisa C.August 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM

    Congratulations!

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  5. jennyAugust 22, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    Lisa-- Thanks! :o)

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  6. WendyAugust 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM

    Yay! That's awesome! You'll have more eggs than you know what to do with soon ;).

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  7. Stephanie DAugust 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    I hear the eggs get bigger as the hens lay more. Practice makes perfect?

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  8. EdieAugust 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM

    Hands waving in the air!!! Wish we were there to see your hens lay eggs... another time... How many have you gotten so far?

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  9. jennyAugust 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM

    Stephanie-- That's what I hear, too. LOL! The 2nd egg we got was slightly bigger than the first, so I assume it was laid by the same hen?

    Edie-- Oh I know, I wish you could have been here to taste them. So far it's been 3 little brown eggs. The girls cracked one, but the membrane is still intact, so it's in the fridge. xoxo

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