Autumn brings its usual changes to the scenery: morning mists and gorgeous reds and oranges.
And for us, it generally brings a dearth of eggs in the henhouse, as the chickens take a well-earned rest from laying. I've been getting one, two or zero eggs each day in the last week or two.
Today's egg harvest was two, and it wasn't until I'd got into the kitchen that I noticed one of them was not the usual Buff Orpington palish brown.
The new hens have started laying! Well, one has, anyway. The eggs either side of the bluey-green Ameraucana one are the normal range of colours that we get from the Buffs. In the dimness of the barn the Ameraucana egg looked a lot like the paler Buff eggs.
I'm very pleased that the new hens are beginning to lay. From being a position of scarcity, I suspect that very soon we might be in the position of being over-egged!
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Lovely images. Autumn colors and mist are a perfect combination. On the subject of your extra eggs, I have occasionally had as many as 13 dozen backlogged in my egg fridge and I recently discovered that the local foodbank will accept eggs. Might be an option. Or else make Angel's Food Cakes and freeze 'em for various holiday uses.
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