The Keig egg train resumes service

Normally the winter brings only a handful of eggs a week, as the ladies take a few months off for some snowy R&R. So I stop delivering eggs to friends during this time and then resume when the hens do in spring. Which works out great because I do not typically go to campus in December or January anyway.

First-year chickens are a little unpredictable in their laying habits. Sometimes if they start laying in the fall, they will continue through winter of that first year. But since my babies were not yet laying before winter came, I figured they would just start after the thaw.

Wrong! It has been so warm and snow-less this winter, those babies are suddenly laying like crcrazywe are getting 10+ per.day, and since I am not delivering, the inventory is getting out of cocontrolSince most professors at Whitworth teach the January term (which started today), I finally decided to reach out to a few friends and will be delivering a dozen dozen tomorrow.

It should be a VERY egg-citing spring 😃.