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Tag Archives: eggs
HAPPY, clappy, lardy a**ed chickens, ducks, and goats
For the first four months of 2010, the HCLA staff produced 2208 chicken eggs and 603 duck eggs 15 baby chicks and 2 baby ducks and 2 baby billies
beDANGLE
My friend Sue makes lovely artwork from eggs (her chickens and mine), which she calls bedangles. Emma and I are quite fond of them, and Sue presented this one to me today. It’s the first duck egg from one of … Continue reading
Peak Egg
I write a lot about the chickens and not so much about the eggs. So, how many eggs do I get? Here’s the rundown since the girls started laying July=190; August=333; September=371; October=384; November=351. The reason the number has gone … Continue reading
One third of a thousand
The official egg tally for August is in. We collected 333 eggs this month. The big contributors were the ducks with a total of 133 eggs followed by white eggs (105) green eggs(62) but no ham brown eggs(33 Go, duckies! … Continue reading
The difference in eggs. . .
Another hot day here in Austin, although I briefly believed we might get some rain this morning. Sadly, no. Chicken and eggs news Anyway, we have been regularly getting two eggs a day. Today was a record day: 7 eggs. … Continue reading