Right before noon, it got very quiet down there, and Gerry went to investigate. Etta was sitting on her egg, Gerry gently scooped it out from under her and she was ok with it all. He brought it in the house, still warm, sweet little egg.....
I struggled for a minute about whether I was going to actually be able to eat it..... but, hell yeah, that's what we got them for!
I held her for a bit and thanked her for the egg, she settled down and seemed to be over the trauma.
The shell was nice and hard, not too hard, but not thin and rubbery like I have been reading. I have read that the pullet eggs would be misshapen, rubbery, thin..... not my girls. They are eating the best organic non GMO food on the market, it's expensive, but that egg they produce is going in my body, I want it to be healthy! I give them dark leafy greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever we eat, they eat. I think the good care paid off. This was a fine egg.
I'm sure this is nothing new for those of you with chickens (you are probably laughing at me by now, haha), but this has been the most fun animal raising I have had in a long long time!
Thanks Etta
xo
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Little does she know , it all starts again tomorrow.
you made me smile...and yep Dennis is correct..popping them babies out will become routine
Hurray! I know what you mean about not being sure is you could eat it.
I raised meat hens for a couple years and at first I thought I wouldn't be able to eat them. We had someone else slaughter them (when I wasn't home). I too got over it pretty quickly. The best chicken I ever ate!
You go, girls!
Yeah!!!
LOL! I thought my girls would never start laying and then one day there it was. Butch said, we can't eat those! I looked at him like he was nuts and scrambled it up for dinner. It occurred to me he had no idea that eggs didn't come from the big box store! Such a city kid! Now he complains when I run out, too funny. The city boy is coming around. My girls are now three years old and really slowed down. I have tried not to look at them as …… well you know. I only named one of the girls the others, NOT! Now fall is here and I'm dragging my feet on this next step of the great chicken experiment. My Grandma would be laughing……. but then she survived WW2. Enjoy!!
That is a good, healthy egg. Looks delicious too.
Etta and the girls will do alright - they live with a great human family :)
Even tho' it was long ago, I miss my Australorp rooster, Eugene and his harem of Wyandotte and Sussex girls.
Such awesome characters aren't they?
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