Mega-Stash, my EE has been at it again!

[HenHaven]

Yesterday, while cleaning up the yard, my husband found this stash of EE eggs! Hootie has always been one to hide her eggs, but this is the biggest stash so far! She is a small hen, isn't it amazing how she can almost cover 22 eggs!!!

I photographed her this morning!

 

[siz8003]

what ya gonna do with all them beauties?

 

[Newchickenmom&kids]

Awww.....how sweet!!! I just love these pics of these wonderful girls trying their hardest to be a mommy!!!!!

 

[HenHaven]

Well, since it has probably taken her a month to lay all those eggs, I will probably boil them up and feed them back to the chickens. It has been hot here over the last month, and I am afraid some might be spoiled. Guess I will have to do the "float test" first, to see which ones I can use!

 

[peeps7]

why not let her sit em and have some chicks? Or do you have a rooster?

 

[HenHaven]

No roosters here...she went broody this summer, and she raised a lone chick that I hatched from Speckledhen's Lexie and Hawkeye. Right now, she's not showing any signs of being broody--she's just found herself a cozy place to lay.

If she goes broody next spring/summer, I will buy some Welsummer or Marans eggs for her to hatch!

 

[silkiechicken]

I was gong to say, even if they were fertile, best to take out enough so she can fully cover the ones that are good.

 

[peeps7]

O! Well like you said if she goes broody then I would definatly buy some eggs.

 

[LoneCowboy]

WOW!

She really pulled one over on you. It's really cute though.

 

[Cara]

My hens did that with 26 eggs! I thought they weren't laying all that well, and moved an old box which turned out to be full of brown and green eggs. Only two of them were bad, so I made a whole lot of breakfast burritos for the freezer!