Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Giant Egg

One of our hens has begun laying gigantic eggs. Here's a picture of the first one she laid yesterday, next to a normal sized pullet egg. We thought it was a fluke, but she laid a second one today. These things are huge. I haven't cracked one open yet, so I don't know how many yolks are inside. I'm guessing at least three since these eggs are much bigger than the double-yolks we've been getting.


Kenzie was outside today when a neighbor walked by. He began telling her how he missed his chickens that he had back in Spain. When he goes for walks, he slows down as he passes our house, hoping to catch Nugget cock-a-doodle-doo-ing. He also hinted that he might like some eggs when we start getting extra, which should be real soon, once all the girls start laying reliably. Maybe Kenzie can start earning her tuition money by selling eggs, except I don't know what legal hoops we'd have to jump through to sell (legally, anyway) backyard chicken eggs.

3 comments:

Martha said...

Ouch! Looks like one big baby to me!

. said...

WOW that's one BIG egg! Perhaps you could have Kenzie offer eggs for a donation...then it won't really be "selling" lol...

Andi said...

I want to sell chicken eggs one day too. :-)