Chicken Update

Sigh, our poor chickens.

In some ways, they are doing well. We've not had one keel over dead in a few weeks.  They are strutting and scratching and generally looking healthy.

But they still aren't laying much. We've gotten 2 eggs quite a few days.  We get 1 egg some days.  Sometimes we get none.

We're still waiting for 3.

We suspect that only 2 are actually laying and the others are just eating and getting fat.

It is frustrating. It is probably the cooler temperatures and the shorter hours and the trauma of getting sick. We understand it, but it is still a disappointing thing that we are getting so few eggs.

Last night I dreamt that I was hunting for eggs and found 2 of our chickens up in a tree, sitting on a nest full of chicken eggs.  "Ah, " I thought, "That's where all the eggs are!"

So I've got chickens, and eggs, on the brain.