The $700 Egg

Happy Shrove Tuesday!

Well, I was figurin' on getting our first egg by Easter, and we got it just before Lent! Kenzie, of course, is very excited. She's called all our chicken friends with the news. She won't tell me when we can eat it, though. We have to make sure everyone who is anyone gets to see it first. With all the expense that has gone into these chickens, this first egg has cost me $700.16 (don't tell Vicki), not including our last trip to the hardware store for our Spring coop construction supplies, which still has stuff on the credit card. We'd better get a lot more eggs from these girls before I spend another $700 on them. I think Kenzie is already planning on setting up her "Home Grown Brown Eggs For Sale" stand for this Summer. Most kids sell lemonade, or even Girl Scout cookies, but not my Chicken Girl.

In answer to the age-old question of which came first; in our case, the egg, which incubated 'til it hatched and grew into the chicken that laid this egg. Full cycle. Pretty cool.

We're headed to our church's pancake supper tonight. No Cooking! Yay!