The post is about hens and eggs, a popular pastime at the moment keeping hens, in France and England.
Our two, Penny and newbe Peck have settled down together very nicely now without the disruptive influence of thug, Scratch. A friend was telling me that when the poule ( French friend ) "commence à pondre, les oeufs sont petits." So when the first eggs are laid they are often miniscule. Our hens up till now have always come in a box from Unicor and are at the point of laying "poule pondeuse" already giving decent sized eggs.
This morning I was delighted to find two eggs: one from Penny, big and beautiful, as is the norm and a tiny little egg from black Peck, the size of a pigeon's. This is the start of her laying period, and once the eggs get popping out we can expect some heavy double yokers. This always seems to happen till the hen and her production gets itself sorted.
Do you know there is a book one could write on fascinating hen facts.
Malc says Fascinating to whom? A very short book.
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