Basketful of Eggs

Backyard Poultry

Eight-Egg Day

Aren’t these eggs a beauty? There’s nothing better than going out and collecting freshly-laid eggs from your own nest boxes. It took my eight hens about six weeks to get up to seven and eight eggs a day. I even took pictures of every single egg I brought in for a while, I enjoyed them so much! Our next discovery was that Acorn, our “Easter egg” Araucana, did not lay blue eggs! (You can see the eight eggs here, and none is blue!) Later, I found out some Araucanas lay “pink” instead of blue eggs. I guess Acorn cheated on us—have to try again next year!