Eggs are beautiful things!

We've been getting quite a few eggs. We have 11 chickens and all of them are laying. The most eggs we've had in one day tho was 10 and that has only happened once. It takes quite a while for pullets (young female chickens) to get on a regular schedule of laying, once they start to lay. I'm very satisfied and happy when we get 7-8 a day. I've sold 5.5 dozen at work so far. At $2 per dozen, that's not too bad. Right now I can't keep up with demand. We use quite a few eggs a week and we're enjoying the fresh eggs so much! They are so much better tasting and even look better than store eggs with their yolks held up so much higher and the whites too. They are so pretty in the pan!



So far they are coming in all shapes and sizes! We've had huge eggs and tiny eggs. That happens with young chickens too.



The 4 Golden Comet chickens we have are the most consistent so far. They were the earliest to lay and almost always lay an egg each, everyday and the eggs are almost always perfect. They are the ones who've laid all the double-yolkers we've gotten. Golden Comets are a sex-link hybrid chicken, bred so you can tell the males from the females at the moment they are hatched. The males are white and the females are red gold. For all around great layers and to be absolutely sure you have all females, they are the way to go!

Today, one of my newest layers laid the tiniest egg we've had so far. It was even smaller than the tiny blue one, shown here, that I eventually painted a picture on. This is the blue one from a couple weeks ago.



Here's a photo of the one from Saturday next to one of our largest eggs to date, and a quarter so you can have something to relate it to size-wise!







I'll save all the unique eggs and either use them as tiny little canvases to paint on, or in the case of the largest eggs, I'm saving them to make a permanent basket of eggs as a centerpiece on my kitchen table. We use the egg inside (I get the egg out of the shell by putting a quarter-size hole in the back and dumping the egg out) then I clean the shell, fill it with salt to give it weight, then fill the hole in and seal it closed with candle wax. I plan to save enough large eggs for the centerpiece. I'll get a pretty basket and line it with some pretty fabric that matches my kitchen decor and nestle all the huge eggs into the fabric. I'll post photos when I get it all done. That time frame depends on my Golden girls and how many double-yolkers they give me!

I just love eggs. They paint such a pretty palette!