Yes, after a sad little shmooshed thin shelled egg yesterday, today we have the real deal and actually birthed in the nest box rather than on the roof. Luckily it looks like the hen (to remain anonymous) was in no way broody. They all hauled butt out of the coop when I opened up this morning. The egg is very cute and small, about the size of a golfball, but a lovely shade of brown with speckles.
We'll have to get some real laying feed now and some oyster shells for calcium suppliment. I was assured that they wouldn't start laying until 20-24 weeks but here we are at 15, so I'm a bit caught out on getting the real feed in the coop.
It has been quite an exciting day. We also had a bee swarm. The bees living in our tree in the middle of our yard were frantically flying all over the yard and leaving en mass from the hole. They re-congregated at the top of another tree close by, you can just see the clump in the center of the picture. Not sure why they do this, and hopefully it doesn't mean they are leaving all together, as it's nice to have them to pollinate our plants, especially with veggies blooming.
Today we'll be planting the pumpkins, so hopefully they can give us some fun in the fall.
The grapes and raspberries seem to be doing well. I may try to harvest some of the grapes this year rather than letting the birds have them all. We should probably get some netting on the raspberries before they start to ripen, so the birds don't get them all as well. The strawberries out front keep disappearing before they even ripen, stem and all. Oh well.
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