First Eggs!

I experienced the first victory in the coop after some very suspicious cackling with Virginia refusing to get off the stack of straw I had carefully placed in the corner of the coop. We had built lovely nesting boxes that I had been checking regularly but her choice had been made! This is apparently how it works; after you lay the egg, you get bragging rights! I had always thought the mad cackling was during the laying process, no! Apparently you get big time bragging rights after the deed has been done. Let me tell you it's an announcement of epic proportions! All hens now want to be the girl in the hatch announcing the delivery of glorious eggs! I hauled up five eggs on my first run!

They looked a little distraught when I robbed them like a common thief! Have you ever tried to talk down a chicken from hysteria? Well I have, and frankly you feel a little foolish! After tapping my friends brains on facebook a solution arrived! Fake eggs to replace the stolen ones! Somebody suggested golf balls with much success! Rotating and mothering those golf balls helped with the loss and I could snatch them all up guilt free!

Julie