They're Getting Bigger.

Pictured below are eggs two to four, number one having been eaten already. That's four eggs in six days and they are all from what we think is just one chicken (Dorothy). The eggs are getting incrementaly larger and more even in tone and color. (Not that you can tell from this photo.)

Crack'n the First Egg.

We ate the first egg! And it was
Good!





The yoke was more orange than store eggs and the whites had more structure, less watery than store eggs. The texture was creamy and wonderful. Ofcourse all of this could be in my mind; a mind that is over joyed at the idea of growing our own eggs. To paraphrase Michael Pollan, we enjoy food that is good to eat as well as good to think.

Dorothy Laid the First Egg.

We've deduced that Dorothy was the first layer. Today, the day after we found the first egg, she was frantically looking around the hen house and finaly settled down to brood the nest egg. She also has the largest comb and wattle, which I'm taking to mean that she is more mature.

An Egg!!!

We have our First Egg!

Don't know who laid it but I like to think of it as a collective effort.

I feel what is similar to the joy of becoming a grandparent, I would think, or at least a grandparent that plans to eat his grandchildren.

Eggs any day now.

The girls are just over 20 weeks old. Every morning is a possible Christmas.




Also after talking with the helpful folks at mypetchicken.com we found the we don't need and shouldn't use the heat lamp we built into the hen house. Welcome to Chicago winters girls.

The Eggs are coming & Winter prep.

The nest eggs are in the hen house, just a few more days and we should have the real thing.


The temp here in Chicago has dropped to aroud 60* today, fall is here and winter is coming, so we'er testing the heat lamp in the hen house.


Mumbi, Dorothy, & Natalie.


Belina & Natalie


The view from our third story apt look down at our little urban plot.