When a chicken first starts laying eggs, they are small. The one I found yesterday is REALLY small though. The picture above shows a nice large egg, next to this little bitty Amaracauna egg (the blue one). Hopefully, her egg today will be much larger!
The cute sign is from a restaurant in Morro Bay. They have an outside dining area where dogs are invited and I loved this.
Things are really happening around here (usually are). We have decided to ramp up our egg production and have ordered several hundred more baby chicks. The last batch are all out of the brooders now and running around in the sunshine. We have the next group of 100 in the mail. We will go to Paso Robles and pick them up at the post office as soon as we hear from them. They are hatched and shipped within 24 hours. They can live up to 3 days without food or water, so they pack them in cardboard boxes and send them from Missouri to California. We cleaned out the brooders this morning to get ready for them.
The third picture is yesterday's visitor to the farm holding one of our "Elvis" chicks. They are actually called Mottled Houdan, but my sister Colleen nicknamed them for us.
Marvin is busy building fences and gates and working on the entry.
Angel (our female Great Pyrenees) has been getting out of the barnyard the past couple of nights. She doesn't go far, but we have been concerned about her safety. The really perplexing thing is that she comes back sopping wet, including the top of her head. We checked the pond and the water troughs and those didn't show any tracks. We finally found a spot in the creek bottom that had a bit of standing water. The fence had a spot where she could dive under water and come up on the other side. What a smart girl!
Marvin is known for his great BBQing skills. He made a wonderful marinade last night and cooked some salmon for us. Yum.
With the high cost of gasoline, I have been spending more time at the Farm. Actually, this is a good thing, because it's exactly where I want to be. Once the vegetables start ripening, I may not have to go anywhere for days at a time. Life on the farm is so great. Lots of work, but lots of fun too.
Well, time to go collect eggs and check on the baby chicks.
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