Rural Gardening: Egg Eating, 0 by greenhouse_gal

greenhouse_gal wrote:
Our chickens had gradually been upping their production of eggs from zero to five or six. I managed to sell a dozen last Saturday night and I had a dozen to bring in to breakfast this past Wednesday morning when a group of artists always meets. So Tuesday morning we were in the chicken coop changing a lightbulb, which for some reason had shattered overnight, and DH was up on a small ladder trying to disinter the shards of the broken one.

We had installed a shelf over about a third of the coop to hold the brooder and other chicken-related equipment, about 6 ½' above the level of the floor, and DH told me to look over on the shelf. He said I wouldn't believe my eyes. Sure enough, neatly laid out in the open space on the shelf were a whole mess of eggs! A couple were broken, but I think all in all there may have been almost two dozen! One or more of the Black Australorps was obviously flying up there to deposit her prizes; the older hens all use the nest boxes and the BA's are the only ones that can really fly, anyway. So we put some netting over the opening to the shelf and we awaited the next chapter in the saga of the eggs with great interest.

Yesterday DH called me into the chicken coop again and showed me this:

Would you believe it?