A Little Experiment

The long weekend has been rather quiet here. The Pirate's parents were here, but due to a family emergency, they ended up leaving rather quickly. The hens laid five eggs and we let them out for some play time. When we let them out, they run out and give themselves dust baths, and then they eat every green thing they can find.

Today, we got eight eggs. We let them out again for some play time and gave them the leftovers of some salad that wasn't going to get eaten, and some raisins. In addition to the salad and raisins, they did their level best to damage the weed population, and the bug population took a hit as well.

I'm betting right about now that tomorrow we get eight eggs - maybe nine. We've realized that the tiny brown pullet eggs we've been getting (we've gotten two so far) are from Little Black Lucy (who differs from Big Black Lucy in age by six months, and in the fact that she's not Cargill's favorite, and therefore doesn't constantly look as though she's been mugged).

We're looking now for some kind of correlation between the amount of play time they get outside their yard and how many eggs we get. We'll keep you posted.