The chickens are currently under ‘hen-house arrest’. Normally allowed to stroll the grounds pooping at will, they (the flock in general) made a terrible mistake. With all the bugs and leaves to pick through all over the farm, the fowl went a-pecking in my pumpkin patch. Yep, the little fowl destroyed a young blooming pumpkin, so there will be no free-range egg laying until after the pumpkin harvest.
This year, I showed great restraint on my sowing and only planted a few pumpkin seeds, unlike last year when I planted the whole packet. Still, we’ve got an impressive patch of 20 or so large orange pumpkins…and I am proud. I do have a thing for my pumpkin patch.
Left-Over-Lionel and the girls have been left to peck away to their little chicken’s hearts content in their hen yard. One of our chickens is weird…and I’m pretty sure which one it is…she marches to her own chicken beat…and is usually the first one out or the last one in…and her eggs…they are weird too. Now, I’m not actually sure if she is the weird egg layer…but some one is…so it makes sense it is her…we use to call her ‘Little’. She is black and white and looks like a ‘normal’ chicken, but she lays eggs like torpedoes. They are not double yolkers, they are just big weird, torpedo type eggs, some of the torpedo eggs even have what looks like stretch marks on them. (Yes, they still taste delicious, they just look weird…really, really weird).
They are so big, and odd-shaped we have to adjust the egg carton for them or they’ll break when we shut the lid. I feel badly for the chicken every time I think about what she goes through to lay these big old torpedoes… and I wonder if her ‘shape’ is not quite right in her ‘egg building’ department….and I’m mostly quite glad I am not any kind of chicken, but especially a torpedo laying chicken.
Loved the chicken story! Which came first???? Thanks for the smile. Have to post a new picture later. Love ya sistah!