Monday, October 09, 2006

Winter Egg Production

Chickens are supposed to lay less in the winter. Apparently it's triggered by the shortening days, so we've been planning to install a low-watt lightbulb in the henhouse. We haven't done it yet because they're still producing an egg a day each.

6 comments:

ZACL said...

good luck with the eggs/chickens; chickens/eggs programme.

I'm going to tab your blog on my firefox site so I can zip in the odd visit or two.

Thank you for your comprehensive and well thought out reply to my request. We're all too accepting of what is fed into the public domain and some alternative thinking is necessary.

I do have a site on blogspot but don't use it much, I find it too quiet.

ZACL said...

PS if you want to find me on blogspot I am
http:// myword1.blogspot.com

I also have a more active blog on http://myword.blog.co.uk

Azura Skye said...

Hey there, I've been looking through your blog - it's really wonderful! The Chicken house is amazing, those lucky chooks! Now they are even getting a little bedside lamp too!

Thank you for writing up 'how to's' on things. It's lovely that you share your knowledge, it is also inspiring : ) I am now excited about making some soap, and making things in general, there'll be no barcodes on my christmas presents this year!

Keep up the blogging!

Anonymous said...

I was reading another self-sufficient blog the other day and came acroos a reference to eggs as 'somthing' berries, but can't remember what it was. Any ideas as it took me a whiole to cotton on then I laughed a lot. My kids would love the term, if only i could remember what it was.

Nerd in the Country said...

(In reply to Azura Skye)

Eggs are often called hen fruit or cackle berries. My boys, being boys, have come up with other names like butt berries (or henny penny butt berries), butt fruit, and the like.

But an egg by any other name is still tasty. :-)

Anonymous said...

And the Aussie vernacular for eggs is "bum-nuts".