I picked up the phone and she was screaming her head off. She's recently quit smoking since they caught the early signs of emphysema in her, so I thought maybe the stress had gotten to be too much and she was going zoinkers. Then, several minutes into the incoherent screaming, I managed to catch something that sounded like words. It took several seconds before I could finally make them out.
"I got my first egg! I got my first egg!"
The picture of the culprit can be found here --> https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=189203. They're obviously much older, now, but I don't have current photos. She doesn't know which is the guilty party yet, but she suspects either Penny or Copper. She took about a million photos of the egg while I was on the phone with her, and when we finally hung up she was going in to crack the egg and take pictures of the yolk. She says she'll be bringing the photos to show me "just how much more perfect my chicken's eggs are than yours!"
I love having a mother who can be just as kooky about chickens as I am.
"I got my first egg! I got my first egg!"
The picture of the culprit can be found here --> https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=189203. They're obviously much older, now, but I don't have current photos. She doesn't know which is the guilty party yet, but she suspects either Penny or Copper. She took about a million photos of the egg while I was on the phone with her, and when we finally hung up she was going in to crack the egg and take pictures of the yolk. She says she'll be bringing the photos to show me "just how much more perfect my chicken's eggs are than yours!"
I love having a mother who can be just as kooky about chickens as I am.
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