BOW FAMILY ADVENTURES

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Chicken Tales

This week has been an eventful week with the chickens. First, we had two very tiny eggs (on separate days) in the Leghorn pen--they had no yolks. I think this would be very marketable--yolk less eggs--you'd never have to separate them; they'd be great for recipes that required just the whites.

After having those two abnormal eggs, we had an unusually large egg--it had a double yolk. I guess that made up for the yolk less ones.

Finally, T.S.'s tiny game hen (for lack of a better word), Bob, is laying eggs. (You'll recall we got them before Easter because I couldn't say no.)
T.S. was very excited that his chicken was laying eggs:
"Mom, can Bob lay me a chick?"
"No, she's too little and the rooster's too big."
"Oh, Bob can't lay me a chick because Bob's a boy."
"No honey, Bob is a girl."

2 comments:

Jen said...

I think I need to buy you guys a book of names--divided into genders!

Laura said...

You just need to learn how to tell if chickens are boys or girls (I've googled it--it's not pretty). That's what happens when you have to name animals before it is apparent what they are...BTW Uncle Sally is doing well.