Hattie laid her first egg today, at 24 weeks and 4 days of age. This means all three hens are laying now! Clockwise, starting from left, are today’s eggs from Mathilda, Little Jerry Seinfeld, and Hattie:
We’ve been keeping up with the egg production so far, only giving away one dozen to a friend who chicken-sat for us while we were on vacation, but with three eggs a day it may start to feel a bit like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory…
And now, in case you’ve been missing them, some pictures of the chicky birds:
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