It's all about chickens around here lately...I had the "brillaint" idea to move thier feeder and waterer away from the enstboxes, and voila, not only are they NOT stepping on or pecking at each other's eggs, but all three nest boxes on that side are miraculously in use - a first. I hope it's a trend. One of our barred rocks has been looking poorly and I realized she was eggbound yesterday evening...a little bathroom surgery and we'll see if she survives (I got the egg out, but she was probably eggbound for 48 hours, so her odds are iffy) Poor girl.

I may have found a lead for the rest of our flock increase - need to negotiate pricewise if she still has them, but the ad was only a week old, so I'm hoping. Swinging by Roger's to pick up eggs and I'll call her when I get home. If E isn't working late, we'll probably try to buy them later tonight. I'd love to have enough eggs on our own to bring to market (without selling out), though I'll probably keep up my connections with Karen, Laurie Ann and Roger - always good for small local farmers to stick together! Tomorrow is busy - pick up eggs form Karen's, maybe from Laurie's, then strawberry picking - I'd like to get at least 20 lbs if Gi cooperates - and then to my mom's once we drop all that off. I also may start picking mesclun tomorrow night - the weeds are doing as well as the lettuce this time of year, and it takes a lot more time to harvest. Last week we didn't give ourselves enough time and only brought ten bags or so when we could have probalby harvested another ten on top of that. OK, Bathroom duty calls.