A couple of weeks ago, I went outside to close up the chicken coop and noticed eggs in the nesting boxes! I asked Greg if he put eggs from the refrigerator into the boxes and he promised that he hadn’t. I excitedly ran in to grab Alli and the camera. We ran through the house yelling, “Eggs! Eggs in the chicken coop!”, and, “Wooohoooo!!!!!”! Only after I started to take a picture did I realize that they were ping pong balls. Some dirty pranksters name Greg and Nathan had put them in while Alli and I were taking a nap.
Finding eggs wasn’t too inconceivable. At least two of the hens are close to the right age to start laying. It was a hilarious trick. So, I was a little skeptical when Greg mentioned the past two days that the wood shavings in a couple of the nesting boxes looked like they had been stirred up and shifted. Skeptical until we found this today!
An EGG! A real, fresh, non-store bought egg! Hopefully the first of many.
Woohoo! That’s really cool!
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Congrats!
Woot! Some one told me that you could trick chickens to laying eggs by placing a ping-pong ball in the nest. So…Greg and Nathan may have gotten things started.
I want chickens.
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