Easter Egg Hunt is Over !!!!

[hcammack]

My girls havent started laying yet but I am sure they will get out of there pen and lay eggs everywhere just to piss me off LOL.

Henry

 

[Critter Crazy]

What is it with EE's??? Mine hide their eggs in the barn as well!! Drives me nuts, cause I have to go on an egg hunt on a daily basis!

Darn birds!!

 

[beefy]

isnt that the whole point of easter eggs? to hide them and find them?

Ruth, if i was a hen i'd lay there. Tell me, was that straw in the crib when she moved in or did she have it imported?

 

[ruth]

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Yes, that is part of the fun - finding the easter eggs - the key word being "find". It's not so fun when you can't find them.

Yes, the hay was already in the feed bin/crib.

I went out this morning to break up the little nest because it's too high for me to get the eggs - have to climb fence and hang from barn rafters. BUT....the other EE was in the nest. So now I know it's BOTH of them.

Critter Crazy, "EE" means Easter Egger - mutts who have been bred with Aracaunas somewhere in past who lay green or blue eggs. Most EEs have beards and muffs.

Maybe it's that South American ancestry gene that makes them such wild REBELS.

 

[HenHaven]

I found my EEs stash last summer. She had 22 eggs in there, and she was the only one laying blue eggs! (She was using the old transom cover from our boat--way on the other side of our property!)

She recently started laying again after her molt, and she surprised me today by laying in a nestbox! She has tricked me before like that, though! She lulls me into trusting her, then, whammo, she starts hiding her eggs again!

Here's another stash she had going last year...

 

[ruth]

So I have a question for all of you who find hidden stashes of eggs - Do you eat them or maybe just scramble them up and feed them back to chickens and cats and dogs?

Now that I know it's two of my EEs laying in barn crib and it's only been a week that I haven't gotten green eggs in nest box and it's been cold here - do you think the 12 eggs are safe to eat? I normally don't wash or refrigerate eggs anyway and they keep on my countertop a week or two or more till we eat them.

 

[speckledhen]

Ruth, I just have to say I have barn envy! I love old barns and haylofts, etc. LOVE to go on egg hunts if I had one of those.

 

[ruth]

Hi Cynthia - I have to admit I love the hunt and keep telling my grown & married kids how much fun the grandkids will have hunting for eggs and playing in the barn and horse stalls. My kids keep reminding me I don't have any grandkids. I keep saying "hint, hint".

I also just had my husband break the padlocked door off the old carriage house. We've never been in it and I was dying to go exploring. It has 2 floors and old man Morris used to stay there sometimes - years after he sold off the homestead - he, and his family, maintained ownership of the barn, log cabin, and carriage house till 2 years ago. Furniture and everything was still in there including calendars from 1988 - last time anyone set foot in there - been boarded up since.

Ever since I was a little girl I have loved exploring old attics and buildings.

 

[speckledhen]

also just had my husband break the padlocked door off the old carriage house. We've never been in it and I was dying to go exploring. It has 2 floors and old man Morris used to stay there sometimes - years after he sold off the homestead - he, and his family, maintained ownership of the barn, log cabin, and carriage house till 2 years ago. Furniture and everything was still in there including calendars from 1988 - last time anyone set foot in there - been boarded up since.

OMGosh, I'd love that! What fun! That sounds like the coolest thing ever.​

 

[ruth]

Hey Cynthia - I've been meaning to ask you - if you ever have any extra Blue Orp babies or eggs I would LOVE to have some. I know you have a waiting list but your birds are so beautiful. Name your price for your prettiest blue babies.