Our First Egg, plus another 2!

Its taken sometime to get our first eggs! In the chicken's defence is has been very cold. However, there have been empty threats of showing them the oven, withholding treats, but still no eggs. Yesterday there were two in the morning, and by lunchtime there was a 3rd!

I am wondering if there have been some eggs laid before now, but they buried them. When I spotted the 3rd one in the run, (not the nesting box), I was busy emptying compost. When I went back to retrieve the egg it had been buried! I managed to retrieve it, but it makes you think! Any one who has seen Chicken Run will know what sneaky little blighters chickens really are!

We have had the girls for just over a month now and it never fails to surprise me what individual personalities they both have. They are so different. We think of chickens as food before pets, but actually keeping them shows them in a different light. Pete is feisty and she will chase you round the garden, plus the poor cat, she will jump up and peck your hand in the hope of treats, she will never make her own dust bath, just push Dud out of hers and use that instead. Dud is more chilled out, and just takes things as they come, although she is not as easily to manipulate with treats as Pete, who will do anything for carrots! They even have different voices, from inside the house you know which one is making noise, they are individuals.

Evidence of our first eggs

Mr H's Coddled Egg Breakfast