Eggciting discovery

Eggs sometimes stop flowing. There are times when our chickens naturally slow down production perhaps during a moult or when the days get shorter. We expect it, we plan for it and we usually notice it.

We are in the heights of summer, the days are still long and the chickens have no need to shed feathers. The eggs are flowing freely, we get the same sort of number every day, we have lots of eggs each week - so many eggs that we struggle to store them.

Imagine our surprise therefore when Karen moved some bushes in the chicken coop the other day and saw this.



Apparently we haven't been getting all of our eggs at all and we may now need to move house in order to accommodate them.