Hope everyone is surviving the weather, here nr Buffalo we coped OK in the big storm last weekend, 13 inches of snow, and very cold temps below 0, overnight we are heading into an ice storm, and a big warm up to around 28 and freezing rain.
My 6 girls also did a 'bottoms up' one warm day a few weeks ago - probably related to the sunflower seeds I threw down on the porch to tempt them out of the coop. They have chosen to stay inside the coop since then, even though they have a covered run, free from snow, they just prefer to snooze on the roost unless temps are above freezing.
We had a very 'eggciting' time last week, our Red Sexlinks started laying, one of them the usual golf ball sized eggs you often see for the first few weeks of laying. Her sister laid the biggest egg I have ever seen - I assumed it would be a double yolker.....
Well this was what we found when we opened it - another whole egg, as well as the yolk (which broke) and white to go with the big shell!!!
Of course this lead to some Google research, and this 1 minute vid was the best explanation I found of how that happens
The 2 Catskill Homesteader hens we added to the flock last June have recently had their first molt, Bronwen went from a scruffly looking thing to a rather gorgeous looking lady
That's all the updates from me, thought you'd all get a kick out of the supersize egg, poor girl, what an introduction to laying, every egg since then has been normal size.
.... I was thinking about either the 4th or the 18th. (The 11th is Mother's day weekend and the 25th is Memorial day weekend) Let me know what weekend works best and we can pick the one that most are available for.
