Egg News

We’re currently getting about four or five chicken eggs every day, and every now and then we get an unusual egg. The other day Dan brought this one in from the chicken coop.

He wondered if it was uncomfortable to lay while I thought it must have been easier! Several days later he found another just like it. So then we had

And a couple days later he found a third.

Since all three eggs are the same elongated shape, I can’t help but wonder if they were laid by the same chicken. We’ll never know!

In other egg news, M.O.M. has been setting a clutch of duck eggs.

I’m not sure how many she had initially, but it was almost more than she could manage. The other day we noticed that it was quite a few less, and then found one broken open, as if it had been eaten. Yesterday morning that egg was gone and when we went out to do morning chores, we saw two opossums making a getaway through the back of the pasture. Needless to say this weekend we’re going to try barbeque ‘possum for the first time. Even so, I’m not very hopeful that she’ll actually hatch anything since we lost our drake earlier this spring,