A Taster

We've been getting a couple of small eggs every few days now for about a month! Not yet up to supplying the household needs but at least a step in the right direction. Our suspicions are that the eggs are from the two bantams - Maple and Mystery. As you can see, Maple's is the smallest creamy coloured egg and Mystery's is the whiter slightly bigger egg and the last brown coloured egg is a store bought one! Willow and Clover are yet to produce anything and probably won't until after the weather warms up or so I have been told.


The chickens, we have decided are not the brightest sparks. They like to roost at night on the chicken coop roof rather than inside the house. With overnight temperatures dropping quickly, I think they may be forced to work it out!

Also Mystery and Maple don't seem to like laying their eggs in the nesting box. We have found their eggs on the roof and on the ground in random spots around the coop. When they do manage to lay them inside the house, it's usually not in the nesting box despite our attempts to show them by placing a golf ball there!