I found a very small egg in the coop. It only weighed 22g.
Sometimes when this happens there is no yolk, but I poked holes in both ends and blew out the contents, and there was a yolk and a white, just in smaller amounts.
I suspect it was just a reproductive track hiccup, most likely from Wing Ding the hen, since she is my only active layer, and it doesn’t have the translucent white deposit that makes Faverolle eggs look pink.
Last year I had a reader reach out with a conundrum: she had three nest boxes with a golf ball each, and somehow the hens moved all three balls into one nest box. I suggested that they nudged or rolled them and to look for a ledge.
Fast forward to this week, and I found my two golf balls in my two nest boxes both in the same box.
There is no rolling or nudging possible between my nest metal boxes.
So I did a little more digging with the search phrase “can chickens move eggs”. We are not the only people to experience this phenomenon, but it is not common. One person even captured a picture of a hen carrying two eggs! The hen tucked the eggs between her legs and body and stabilized them with her wings. That particular internet chicken forged while carrying eggs, so moving eggs from one nest box to another is certainly possible. Or golf balls.
Of course these two nest boxes are not viewable with my web cam, so I don’t have photographic evidence of my hen moving her treasures.
In March 2017 I made a pull apart cake for my eldest. She picked out a cat picture (not any of our cats), and I used an airbrush with food dye to paint white frosting on cupcakes. The ears are massive mounds of fondant.
I’ve been collecting patterns from Wool & Pine that use 1×1 color work. I put my toe in the water using scrap acrylic yarn: a variegated green/tan/black as the main color and then sun and sky colors (blue, white, gray, yellow, orange) for the secondary colors.
I love the look of the broken horizontal stripes, it isn’t hard, but it isn’t fast. I don’t like the large number of yarn ends and dealing with them at the end of the project. Full disclosure, on this project I didn’t neaten them, just tied knots and left the fringe inside. I
t does make a thicker fabric, which isn’t ideal here in Texas. I do want to use the technique for a larger project, but ideas are still brewing.
I’ve had a few interesting interactions caught on the trail cam of unexpected pairs.
I have my trail cam set to take photos every three seconds when there is movement, so the shots on either side of the ones I selected above told me the story. I chose the most representative photo to share.
From this set of data, it seems the raccoons are top, then opossums, and then the cats come in last, giving the others wide berth.
Critters and Craft 