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| The circle of life! |
Can you guess who laid it?! The gals are a week shy of 5 months so we weren't really egg-specting any so soon! I went out to feed the girls some cherry tomatoes and couldn't find my Tweety Martini! She's the Speckled Sussex and is ALWAYS the first to greet me...and here I was feeding Layla and EggBerta and she was nowhere to be found. I panicked. I called in the house to Cameron and told him I couldn't find her. I asked my neighbor who was in her backyard if she had seen her (her response was that she had and she tasted really good...which wasn't very comforting!) and Cam calmly walked over to the coop, opened the door to the nesting box, and lo and behold!
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| Thatta Girl!! You did it!! |
There was Martini crouched in her nesting box :)
What an amazingingly great day :) We celebrated, gave Tweety Martini some milk and chicken scratch, and went in and tested it out! They yolk was so orange! I'd heard that it would be since they are allowed free range and can eat bugs and worms, but still it was a nice treat :)
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| Carton Egg on Left ~ Backyard Egg on Right |
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| The Proudest Hen :) |
The ladies are laying pretty consistently now ~ we get at least 2 eggs a day and most days 3. But they are getting smart those little ladies, especially Martini! I realized that she wasn't producing recently and had read somewhere that some hens may find different spots to lay because they want to protect their eggs (and wisen up to the fact that every day they lay an egg and it goes missing! She was acting extra funny one afternoon and was pecking at the sliding glass door to go in the house while we were out in the garden. She was so persistent that we finally let her in and she layed an egg behind the curtain! So I wasn't surprised to find that there weren't eggs in the nesting box over the next few days. I went in the yard one day while she was "missing" and took a broom stick and was going through the bushes to see if I could find her...and wouldn't you know she came out from UNDER THE DECK with a broken eggshell in her mouth!! Then I looked under the deck and saw that she had laid 3 other eggs under there! I took the broom handle and nudged them out so Cam and I are going to have to work on getting under the deck blocked off. For the next couple days I made sure to just keep her in the closed run until she was done laying the egg, this way she had no place else to go. 
I did it. I ran my 1st Half Marathon...in less than 2 hours! Boy oh boy what a feeling. As soon as I crossed the finish line I thought "I'm never doing that again!" but later on that day I started having the "post half marathon blues" so will be doing another one for sure! It's one of those things that you prepare for for so long and then when it's over you feel kind of down. Good thing I have Rebekka and Lauren though because they keep me motivated! We actually ran a 5K Fun Run this morning at Columbia Park. It was Elia's first participation in a run (with Bekka pushing him in his stroller of course) and he even got a ribbon :) 
