Look what I found!!

I went out to feed and water the chickens this afternoon and guess what I found in the coop! Our first egg!! I've been waiting for five months for this day. I HATE storebought eggs. I didn't really see a difference until we had to go back to them in July. They are watery!!

Anyway, I had to run in the house to show everyone. I finally fed and watered the chickens, fed and watered Gus, and watered Hannibal. Then I remembered that we had new bedding to give the chickens (I had cleaned out the coop on Saturday and we ended up having to buy more bedding). I went to put that in and found another, very warm, egg by the feeder. It was like the chickens were thanking me for the new feed. Probably what really happened was that the chicken was ready to lay an egg, but wasn't about to miss out on the new feed. Now if I can just train them to lay in the nesting boxes, we'll be set.

The eggs really are both brown. The more white-ish one was the first one and it seems to have some sort of white coating over the brown. I'm SO excited to have brown eggs again!!

I just have to share a story about brown eggs here. We went down to my mom and dad's house and my mom got out a carton of nice white eggs. My kids all stared at them in wonder. One of them asked Grandma where she got the white eggs. They didn't remember ever seeing them before.