3 egg AM-The morning looks so spring like till you walk out into it, and get hit with a winter chill. Oh spring where are you. Treats of old bread “heels” kale and organic baby spinach on the menu. The new system of raised food is a blessing, sometimes while reading all these chicken forums I wish people would say “hey! get a hanging feeder! It’ll keep you from having 10 inches of muck in the coop” but alas, lesson learned. The coop (run) remains dry and that makes me happy. The eggs no longer have muck on them, so I don’t have to wash them off, preserving their protective “coat” that keeps the bacteria away.

Many people ask me how chickens can lay eggs without a rooster. I sorta giggle to myself. All girls lay eggs in some form or another. The key of course is it fertile or not. Believe it or not, even with a rooster,  eggs are NOT fertile until they are incubated for a certain number of hours. So if you collected them right away, you’d  just have normal non-fertile eggs.