Accidental Homesteader

Our older ladies turned four months on Saturday. So we’ve begun EGG WATCH 2017!

Which means I’ve been incessantly googling “how to tell if your chickens are about to start laying eggs” These are our two biggest suspects… Susan and Dottie.

• Mature looking – check
• Moody – check
• Louder – check
• Squatting – check

Basically they’ve gone emo. I expect to see tiny doc martens and hear My Chemical Romance blaring from the coop.

So we’ve opened the next boxes and put in nest eggs. And every morning I look at their nesting boxes. You’d better believe that pics will ensue when they first lay.