My bantam Easter Egger laid a little green-tinted egg. Yippee! Now I have to start feeding her oyster shells again and keeping an eye out for more--she's in with my bantam purebred Ameraucana and they can make beautiful chicks together.
Nope, I've had chickens since last spring, when I got the idea that I could get egg layers (as opposed to broilers) and supply myself and my dogs with some inexpensive food. I got the green/blue egg layers because the egg contents could be blown out and the shells sold on eBay. Crafters will pay okay money for colored shells and I can still eat or freeze the yolk and the whites. I'm paying for a friend to raise some broilers for me this spring (between 25 and 50 birds that I can freeze) and I'll be getting some quail chicks and rabbits that I can raise and put up as well--to that end, as well as to preserve the veggies from this years planned garden, I am learning how to can. At the end of deer season, I'll be going squirrel hunting and maybe squeeze in some fishing--I might need to buy another freezer! I am not one of those people who looks at the way things are going and says, "we're facing an apocalypse!" However, my grandmother used to put up lots of food because she lived through the Great Depression and she instilled a lot of respect for hunger and privation into all her grandchildren. I'll not go to her extreme, but I recently read that the average American has only three days of food put up at any given time and even I, who lived through Katrina, probably has only a week's supplies or so. I remember what we went through after Katrina (I remember standing in the vestibule and weeping the first time I saw a full post-Katrina grocery store) and I don't plan to go through that again if we have another major disaster of any kind. But yeah . . . I got my first egg of the year yesterday! Awesome!
Very punny! Thanks, Tak. I'm still waiting for enough eggs to make an omelet, but that's okay. I'm still really happy about it.
