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Chicken Status Report

One of our hens started laying this week. Woo-hoo! That only leaves two more freeloaders. We've had 4 eggs so far, and the very first one was a double yolk. A fortuitous beginning? I certainly hope so.

Here are the double yolks about to become corn bread. Can you see how orange the yolks are? That's because they're our free-ranging chicken eggs and not from an egg factory. Who knew, right? Not me. I'm learning stuff all the time about food.

And speaking of free ranging, lately the chickens want to come up on the porch. I don't even know what's so good about the porch, except we were drying poppy head there, and they like to perch in the window that's missing its glass. You can tell they're there because they make a clucking racket and peek in the windows. What a bunch of nosy hens.