Is that really and egg? Well ok, if you say so.

  My lil Flock band, is doing great today.

  Yesterday when I got my new hens home I just put them in with the oldies. There were a few lil squables, but nothing big. I think it probably helps that they have 7 acres to rome on so they were not all in some small little area that they had to fight over. But it does seem that the new girls have began to rule the roost.

  This morning when I went out to check on them and do my morning chores, I was not expecting any eggs. Black Beard and Golden Eye have stoped laying sense I made the changes to the coop and then threw in some new roomates and just having brought the new girls home I did not think they would be laying for a few days. I check on my chickens quite a few times durring the day as I am new to this and I am still waiting for some of the oldies to start laying and don't know what time in the day they plan on doing so. When I went out just before noon I found miss no name (Black Astralorp) in one of the nest boxes. Now she should have been named Pecky Peckerton as she does snip at you when being bothered. As I shoved my cold hand under this poor warm hen in the box and she tried to keep me away I did not find an egg, darn. But I just figured that it was not time yet, come to find out I may have felt the egg and not even noticed. Come to think of it, I don't think she knew she had even laid one untill she turned to look as she left the box. Here's why........

The great blue egg on the left is from Black Beard, the middle is left over store bought egg, and that little itty bitty, tan grain of sand on the right is from no name! I would imagine it just felt like passing gass, she probably was startled to find that there was somthing under her when she moved.


 I don't think that I have ever seen an egg this small from a chicken, has anyone else had tiny tinies like this?

Hope you guys are getting nice weather like we are! Happy homesteading....