Poppet has laid her first egg! A beautiful brown egg. Now it’s just Heihei we’re waiting on. She’s probably the most stubborn, she likes to peck at Poppet’s feathers and has yet to let me pick her up…. but her day is coming.
The star of the show
She-who-shall-not-be-named has done it again. I now have two lovely blue eggs. Is it weird that none have actually laid an egg in the nesting box yet? She’s quite the exhibitionist and likes to do it in plain site of her sisters, right in the middle of the run, but who’s judging! I think she’s showing them why she’s leader of the pack, head pecker (you know, in the pecking order of things), and why she gets to eat first… she’s small but fierce!
Now what can I make with two eggs and a courgette?
An hour later….
I went with the Omelet! It wasn’t pretty (my omelets never are), but it was delicious. Now for the season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale. Oh Joseph…why are you the bad guy?
Chicken overlord overload.
Sorry (not sorry), I don’t mean to inundate you all with Chicken stuff, but OMG I have an egg!!!!! I went to check on my hens at lunch and one had popped out an egg!!!!!! They were all standing around staring at it like it was from outer space.
Meet Poppet, Heihei, and yet-to-be-named white lady chicken…
So the trip to Oxford Poultry was productive. I thought maybe I would wait a bit longer since the run wasn’t built yet, and I hadn’t sorted out food or bedding…. but I walked into the large chicken pen at Oxford Poultry and the little brown one came right up to me and crouched down just asking for me to pick her!! So I did! Along with 2 others.
Cluck cluck cluck… almost!
Tomorrow’s the big day. I have an appointment to see some chickens in Oxford! I could be coming home with some new additions to my little family…
I finished putting up the coop tonight. Check out this fuschia beauty:
I still want to build a bigger enclosed chicken run to give them some more room to roam around in. But this will be their starter home.
Damn that’s one fine peach.
Rainbow beets!
and radishes…. that’s it for tonight. I’m off to pickle radishes. And as for the beets, they are for lunch tomorrow!!
Does this make me a terrible blogger?
It’s been a while.
I’ve been keeping busy in the garden, and with life in general. I’ll try to write more often though, mostly because everything is blooming and begs to be shared with the world!
Rain, rain, go away…
Well yesterday was a bust! Day one of my super long Easter weekend was rainy. And not just a little I-can-still-go-out-and-plant-potatoes rain, but all out pouring, drenching, I-think-it-hailed-a-little, stay-in-all-day rain. And today is not much better! Big boo for British weather this weekend.
World domination.
My seedlings really like music. I swear that with the melancholic Eric Satie and Gnosienne #1 playing in the background they’ll grow an inch. They prefer mellow, nothing to rousing. But today with Alexa playing a random smattering of the Late Great Leonard Cohen, they grew two inches*. Maybe they’re trying to take over the world, but by now they should know that Manhattan and Berlin are taken.
