My young chickens are at the age that they should begin laying soon so I kept everything penned up in the chicken yard yesterday. I want them to learn to lay in the nesting boxes so that I don't have to go on an egg hunt every day and sure enough, I had some new eggs on Saturday. I also found these:
The 2 on the left are guinea eggs! The third one is a first egg from my young chickens and the one on the right is from one of my older hens. I don't know how long they've been laying because they run all over creation from sunrise until sunset. Those guinea eggs are tiny!
We didn't get the guineas for eggs, but DH was gone all day and when I told him on the phone that we had our first guinea eggs, he said, "Good! We can scramble them for breakfast tomorrow." Ummm...hope you're not very hungry because you might get a tablespoon from those 2 guinea eggs. :)
7 comments:
Wow, they are tiny eggs!
Oh my gosh that's hilarious my daughter would love those eggs, will they lay small eggs forever? or is it just because they are young?
There used to be guinea hens on our farm, but I don't think I ever saw an egg. They are tiny!!
Tiny eggs! Love the fabric ♥
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That quarter sure gives a perspective on how tiny those eggs are! If you made them for breakfast today I hope they were delicious -- knowing, of course, that they would probably have been mixed with other eggs, too. Fresh eggs must be much better than store-bought eggs.
--Nancy. (ndmessier @ aol.com, joyforgrace.blogspot.com)
How cute is that! A friend has guineas too and they will not go back into the coop they were raised in, so they will never find those tiny eggs out in the yard where they roam. They must not be the smartest chickens on the block, huh?
I contain my chickens due to a multitude of predators, but, they don't seem to mind as they have a large pen, and lay delicious eggs! I had 4 guineas and thought I could teach them to come back to their coop......well, that didn't happen. They joined the neighbor's penned in flock, and every time I try to bring them back they go right back. Oh well! LOL
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