We were surprised and delighted to find five eggs in the nesting boxes when we returned from Yellowstone. These are the first eggs that Nellie and Rockefeller have laid!
They were so cute and tiny. That's Rockefeller's blue egg there next to a store bought one I had in the fridge, and I don't even buy the extra large ones! (I feel too bad for those poor chickies squeezing out such unnaturally humongous eggs!) It didn't take long to put those eggs to good use. I made delicious blueberry pancakes, adding one extra egg since they were so small. I was amazed at what a rich color the yolks were. I guess a steady diet of greens, bugs and compost scraps will do that!
They still haven't been laying regularly though and a reader suggested placing decoy eggs in their nesting boxes. Apparently it makes them broody and they lay more. Sam and I collected a few egg shaped rocks to tuck in there. What do you think? If you were a chicken, would you be fooled?
