Accidental Homesteader
…a funny thing happened on the way to the bar
Egg Watch 2017
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.
Accidental Homesteader 
Do they go in the nest box for a little practice? All of our girls started doing that just before laying.
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Do they go in the nesting box and sit and have a practice? That’s what all our girls started doing just before they began laying.
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