I don't often get the chance to cook fancy stuff but we had some friends over to stay last night and I cooked up an Italian Eggstravaganza of a meal. Goats cheese and red onion Ravioli to start – fresh pasta which was hung over the aga before cutting… P1070202 P1070212 Foccacia to compliment [...]
Posts Tagged ‘egg’
11 Jan
What to do if your hen is Egg Bound
June was not herself yesterday morning, she seemed hunched and her bottom looked dirty. On closer inspection she looked like she had a prolapse so I thought I'd leave her a while and see what happened, last time one of the hens looked prolapsed it turned out to be temporary and was fine half an [...]
19 Sep
A green Egg
Yep there it was just sitting in the nesting box. Question is was it Mary or Betty? Betty has been crouching for a while now but we've also been getting tiddly cream coloured eggs which I thought she was laying. No sign of a crouch from Mary but here is a lovely green egg! [...]
11 Jan
Bunny Lays Again
After her small moult we found an egg from Bunny today. It was a little small but had a good hard shell – it's the white one! Eggs in holder Read and post comments | Send to a friend
23 Oct
Chicken Update
Poor old bunny, she was still laying softies laid good eggs for a couple of days and then stopped laying. A couple of days later she started moulting. So no eggs from her for a while I guess. Her breed is supposed to be good for laying be even though I bought her at POL [...]
9 Oct
Settling in
After a comfy first night in the cube none of the girls were ready to come out first thing but within a few minutes they had all negotiated the ladder, Pengy flapped a little but I didn't see the others come down (the anti-chicken let them out as she is always first up - I had [...]
30 Sep
Bunny still hasn’t got the hang of laying
eggshell She seemed OK with her eggs for a few days and then seemed to stop laying apart from the odd softie. Usually she lays them on the roosting bars too. I've been adding crushed (baked) eggshell to their feed inthe hope she will improve. I will try and buy some oyster shell this week [...]
15 Sep
Bunny update
Still not quite there in the egg laying department, none yesterday and this morning a broken softie on the ground by the edge of the Eglu. Mum of course thinks someone else was hogging the nest box and Bunny couldn't wait, but I don't mind that thinking as its what got our Cube ordered! Luckily [...]
13 Sep
Bunny laying
She's still not right, today one softie which was intact on the roosting bars at sparrows fart. Then later another small egg with a good shell. Mum now has it in her head that when she does get the hang of laying they'll be whopping double yolkers every day. Read and post comments | Send [...]
9 Sep
Eggs for breakfast
We always have an eggy breakfast at the weekend with our freshly laid eggs. Today we all had something different. Mum had a poached egg sandwich with Bunny's giant egg – it turned out to be a double yolker! poached egg I had an egg yolk sandwich, with one egg each from Pengy and June [...]
