An abundance of eggs

We now have seven out of eight girls laying with just Toffee lagging behind. I don’t why she is so late starting but she is investigating the nest boxes each morning so I am sure she won’t be long now. In March we had four, four egg, days and a total of fifty six eggs which is  exactly the same total we had in June before the number started to decline again.

We have been having eggs for breakfast on one mid week day, both weekend days and for one evening meal. I have given our newest neighbours a box of four but have been saving the rest so that when I have the family to stay over the Easter weekend I can do a cooked breakfast for everyone with two eggs each.

An almost full egg skelter

The colour difference doesn’t show up that well on a photo but I can clearly tell Peaches and Barley’s white eggs and Sparkle, Emerald and Honey’s cream coloured eggs.

The egg skelter from a different angle

When I say seven girls are laying that does include Amber who has in fact only laid one egg which was broken and Topaz who has actually stopped again at the moment and hasn’t laid for a month, so in fact I suppose I should say that only five girls are laying on a regular basis at the moment. We are getting an average of fifteen eggs a week.

It looks a lot of eggs on the skelter but being small we can eat them two at a time. However Emerald’s eggs are the size of a small shop bought egg and I wonder if Toffee’s will also be a larger size. I have to say that I just love seeing the skelter filling up like this.