Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A magical life



                                                                      Hard at work.

 One of my favorite parts of having chickens? Mutant eggs. The chickens egg production is down for the winter. Shorter daylight hours equals less eggs. We had been getting 5-6  a day from our 6 chickens over the summer. Now were getting maybe one a day. Christmas saw three though! Anyway, chickens dont always lay perfect eggs. We've had shell-less eggs. No shell, just a thick membrane. Apparently you can tear these open and eat the egg within 24 hours. I passed. Anyway. Last week I found this cutie in the coop. I will be making the worlds cutest fried egg one day soon.

I  read this somewhere, I dont remember. But its written on a piece of paper that sits on my desk. "A Magical Life. Living Each Day as Sacred." Strive for that. Hope your day is Magical.
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4 comments:

  1. "A Magical Life. Living Each Day as Sacred." Strive for that. Hope your day is Magical.

    Nice...That reminds me of a line from an old song...

    "Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart
    How the music can free her, whenever it starts"

    Simple lives and great American novels are birthed out of that. :-) Do you believe in magic???

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  3. I love reading about your magical life! On the chickens... we also have 6 hens and have been getting one egg a day (and celebrate when we get more than that). We had read that if you add cayenne pepper or crushed red pepper flakes to their food, it can stimulate laying again... and since we did that we've been getting 3-4 eggs a day kinda consistently. We only added the crushed red pepper for about 3 days and they loved it!

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  4. Whoa! Thats so awesome. I will definitely try it. I had heard that sprouted mung beans will stimulate egg production as well. But it is definitely not warm enough to sprout anything in our stone house at the moment. Thanks for sharing.

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