Solitary chicken - need advice

[wez]

Finally, after becoming a featherhead in November last year, by rescuing a Pekin and adding another 4 to her gang over the next couple of months and succumbing to a cube vey quickly, we have had out first egg today!!!! I'm so eggcited (sorry!) and thrilled I can't believe it! It's a thing of such beauty and it's reverently placed in the kitchen ready for hubs to admire when he gets in! If only I knew who'd laid it I'd kiss her but as they're being wormed at the moment I can't even give them a treat until Saturday!! Wow ... just needed to share that!!!!

 

[Daphne]

It will be the sweetest egg you've ever had

 

Featherhead - I like it

[mollyripkim]

A new phrase featherhead, I like it

Well done on your first egg, I still get a buzz, that is when they are laying.

[mimi5]

So now comes the big decision..........how are you going to eat it????? So many options, or do you wait for more, go mad and make a cake!! My pekin girls lay the most yummy eggs. I've become an egg s"Ooops, word censored!" and don't eat any other eggs

[Luvachicken]

Yay, your first egg. You never forget your first egg

I scrambled my first one and shared it with my sister ( usually in Greece ) and we had a little bit each

[auntielizzie]

Yay You never get over the excitement of going down your own garden and collecting eggs from your very own hens Oh the joy you feel when you get a "full house" and the disappointment on the days when there's nothing "What, no eggs today girls?!"

 

Its been a horrible miserable long winter and the eggs have been far and few between (although thankfully I haven't had to resort to buying any from the shops ). This last week though I think things are turning for the better. Today was a 3 egg day (from 4 hens). I might even be able to start selling a few again soon (which is an amazing feeling too - you feel sooooo proud ).