I'm a Real Farmer Now

I got home from a work conference tonight.  I went out to check on the chickens; lo and behold, there were three eggs in the nesting boxes.

On the drive home from the airport, I asked the chicken sitter if there were any eggs.  I was told no - just the ceramic ones I had put in the boxes to teach the chickens where to go. 

So I check on the chickens and everyone is outside scratching around except for the gray naked neck.  But she usually hangs out inside anyway, so I didn't think anything of it.  She was in there eating - a lot.  I had to refill the food and threw out a bunch of treats for her.  Again, didn't think too much of it as this is kind of her routine.

I then looked in the nesting boxes to check on the cermaic eggs.  Didn't see them, but did find three other eggs.  One had a big chunk missing out of it...I'm thinking someone may have been pecking at it.  But hte interior membrane wasn't broken.  This is very good news as it means they haven't gotten the taste of raw egg.  That can be a very bad thing.

One of the other eggs had a crack in it as well.  Again, is someone pecking at them?  Don't know.  The third egg was just right.  They are a little smallish, but that is supposed to be normal for the first couple of eggs.

I don't know if these all came from the same chicken or if multiple chickens are actually laying.  Hopefully wiht the sun coming up earlier now, I can catch one in the act some morning.

This also means a change in food for the chickens...they will be going to a layer feed as soon as the current batch of grower feed runs out this week.