Finding our hen’s first eggs
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It finally happened!
Right in the middle of the grass and found and almost stepped on by ME! A small creamy colored egg with a tiny bit of blood and mud smear, still lukewarm.
My doggie Jackson was with me and my camera as well! The buff colored silkie (named Cracker by my 6 year old on his birthday) had been showing some nesting behavior in her box earlier in the afternoon, so I knew it had to happen soon. After all our 2 silkies were 8 months old already! I was so excited to show the kids! So they kids rejoiced at the new egg, had to take multiple turns holding and they demanded we scrambled it. So I served it on 3 tiny plates to them. They loved it, mostly! I was a little curious (silkie eggs have a darker yolk and an orange buttery dense texture after prep) as was my 6 year old boy since it was his pets egg. He said he wanted to keep the egg warm so it would turn into a baby. I again explained that since we dont have a rooster these can’t be baby eggs. They are only food eggs.
Very shorty after 2 other hens started laying, within a week. Our gorgeous silver laced Cochin laid a small “pink” eggs, as proclaimed by my daughter then she twirled in circles laughing when finding Verde’s first little egg.
Verde got her name because of the sheen on her black feathers in the sunlight, I think. My 7 year old daughter named her in an instant and then asked me what it meant while we enjoyed handmade ice cream in an open front ice cream shop in downtown Portland after purchasing our new chicken . It seemed that passers by enjoyed staring and curiously admiring the pretty little hen in the front of the old barber shop turned ice cream parlor. “I think Verde means green in Spanish, honey!” It happened to be a great name, I thought, punctuated by a scoop of green pistachio and another of sweet honey ice cream I was totally digging into!
Added: August 5th, 2011
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