We have 4 chickens. Because we chose a heritage backyard variety (Australorps) rather than a commercial laying variety, they lay 4-5 eggs a week when they are in peak condition. Ours are just warming up, because they are new layers, and also because it has been winter. So for us, a 4 egg day (when all of them have laid) is cause for excitement.
Yesterday was a 5 egg day. But it was no ordinary 5 eggs that we found:
Yes, Chook Pink has finally passed not one, but two eggs in one day. They are strange eggs though - it’s hard to tell from the photo, but the first egg (discovered first thing in the morning) has a porous, not-quite-right shell, and the last egg (discovered last thing at night) is almost perfectly spherical!
Hopefully she will lay an ordinary egg today, and we can officially say that she is fixed. Yay!
apparently all egg shells are porous even when they are hard! what pretty eggs……go pinky go!
Comment by M — September 16, 2007 @ 11:50 am
you totally have to save the spherical shell and hang it somewhere… that’s quite something. wow. glad the chook’s better, too. no wonder she was feeling poorly, with those two things stuck in her bottom!
Comment by az — September 16, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
that’s a pretty cute egg! sometimes our chooks would lay very thin-shelled eggs, kind of squishy-looking, when they’d been ill/not laying, when they were young or when they hadn’t been eating enough food-that-is-good-for-shells. is that porous one a bit transparent? it’s very cool when you can see the yolk in the light!
Comment by nix — September 17, 2007 @ 8:07 am
hi i’m still breast feeding after an hour so i thought i’d give myself a change of scenary and
check emails and your blog. Iv’e worked out by resting pillow on computer table at the same time
as balancing
pillow on leg on table, I can still feed and type.anyway an egg comment from us: as you know our
chooks were laying so far under the shed in attempt to hatch offspring that was never gonna
happen. To stop this we’ve blocked all shed access except a corner of shed off for them where we
can still access, they seem to be laying larger eggs- laying with confidence. So much so that if
they were in an ad they’d be running down the beach laughing or riding horses.
Comment by kate — September 23, 2007 @ 6:59 pm