No Snow Day for the Ladies

Made my trip, on foot, in the snow, to the "store" for eggs!

Eight inches of snow didn't keep these ladies from showing up at work!

Lunch Break!!

"The Boss" is keeping his eye on production!

Nice work, Ladies!!!  See you again tomorrow!

Surprise

You never know what you might find in the hen's egg boxes. I am assuming this is a young pullets egg. They have all just started to lay.


My boys thought this was absolutely hilarious!


It only had white inside! No yolk!

Variety

It's amazing how the simplest things can bring a smile to your face on a farm! I was scurrying around yesterday evening after I got home from work, trying to get everyone in the barn fed, given hay and watered before dark. As I went into Dimples stall to add hay to his manger, I am sure my face lit up as I grinned from ear to ear. There in the corner of his stall were two GOOSE eggs in a nest of hay!!


I got my geese last Spring as babies and as they grew it became obvious that I had 2 females and a male. Over the past week, the male has been parading around, hissing at anything and everything that gets close to his ladies and biting at the chickens and goats. Now I know why!

After gathering all the eggs from the barn yesterday, I had quite the variety of eggs!


My Easter basket!


Since these are the first of the geese eggs, I am sure they will get a little larger as "first" eggs are always a little small! It's still a too cold with all the snow on the ground and 10-20 degree temps to let them try to sit and hatch babies but as soon as it's warmer we'll be trying for baby geese!!!



But until then we'll be having


scrambled eggs for breakfast!


YUM!

Wanted: Egg Washer

Wanted: Egg-washer in the Western KY area to wash multiple eggs given by these pretty ladies each and every day.

Job may be seasonal depending on the mood of the ladies! Sometimes they refuse to work when it's cold.

Benefits include spending your free time playing with these youngsters

Or cuddling these babies

They are just too cute and fluffy!

Or sleeping like these two.

Can't get any egg washing out of Biscuit and Bessie. The hardest work they do is occasionally chasing a butterfly (usually in their sleep) or barking at the deer and turkey that frequent the feeding area out back.

Or you can sit in the rockers on the porch and enjoy the roses

or clematis on the lamp post....

Hurry this job opening will not last long!

Fine print: These benefits may end on Saturday with the arrival of our milk goat. Goat milker will be added to the title of egg washer and full time employment will be established!
Just don't tell Nellie that she has competition coming!

It's That Time of Year Again!

The time when things wake up.....

The time when the sky has that beautiful "blue after the spring rain" color.....
(That house is the house I grew up in. No one lives there now but I have so many wonderful memories from there.)

The time when new things are born and old things find new life.....

The time when my boys get really excited about that big Styrofoam box I bring down from upstairs.
This one.....

You can tell it's been used a few times. My mom used it for raising Pharaoh quail until she gave it to me when we moved out here to the farm.
It's that time when we set our "Easter Eggs!

We even have some "real" Easter eggs from our Easter Egger hens in there this year and a few Bootsie eggs too...

So goodnight, sleep tight and stay warm little eggs (but not too warm...and not too cold either....how about 100 degrees and just keep it there!)

In 21 days, we'll have new babies like these from last year.....

Then I'll be looking for people who need some roosters!!

Officially a Lady!

No longer a young chick, no longer baby Boo. She is now officially "Lady Boo"! She has acquired this new title by gifting me with her first perfect little egg!

Thank you, Boo!
In comparison to even her momma's eggs, it's little.

Here we have a regular hen egg, a greenish-blue "Easter Egger" egg, a Bootsie egg, and a little Boo egg!

I think all eggs are beautiful and although she may never lay one of these.

I still think her little eggs are perfect!!

and they will fit right in with all the other different kinds of eggs I get each day! Now if I could just figure out where those guineas are hiding theirs!