Chicken Eggs

As during last year our chickens are still laying well throughout the winter so far. In fairness we cheat a bit by giving them a light to increase their 'daytime' hours and help to improve their egg production over the darker months.

Some people like to do this and some don't - there are all sorts of arguements (we'll do a specific blog on this soon) however our chickens are very well, seem really happy and lay without issue so we are happy with the situation. We are averaging eight eggs a day even with poor light from seventeen chickens although earlier this week we got thirteen!

We've also got a couple of the younger chickens who now seem to be laying with the big boys (or girls). Usually the eggs start off tiny and then get bigger, frequently laying a double yolker around this time, one of which we picked up today.

Two for the price of one. For those who don't keep chickens this is the actual colour of egg yolk!

On the down side we've noticed that they have taken to laying in places other than the warm, tidy nesting boxes that we have provided for them. While this isn't a massive problem it can be frustrating when, as now, the ground is really muddy and you have to comando crawl through the undergrowth in order to obtain breakfast - at least it builds the appetite.