I *may* have gotten my first double-yolker
the egg I just collected from the nest box is more than TWICE as big as the first five eggs
..... and I didn't get an egg yesterday
tomorrow for breakfast, I will find out, I now have enough eggs to do a taste-test
(comparing them with Costco generic white eggs)
at least I know who laid it
I let the chickens out of the tractor where they had been most of the day,
they ran and flew and cavorted back to the coop and run ... probably 50 feet or so
(did not need to throw bread chunks, they know the way ... )
five pullets and the cockerel headed for the hanging feeder
five ??? thought I had six pullets ....
then checked and there was one fluffed down in the nest box in the far side of the coop, so I let her be
I just went out to doublecheck, and yes, there was an egg
... and it was Dierdre (as I suspected earlier) who laid it
(good thing DH gave me some colorful zip-ties -- four of them look so much alike it is sometimes difficult to tell who's who)
this egg is slightly paler mint green, almost pastel turquoise --- and still warm
hard to wait until morning ... but I've already eaten dinner