I love going into the coop every morning to look and see if my hens have left me an egg. Actually, my whole family does. We will literally run to the coop to outrace the other just to get there and find the egg first. And though I love finding Lucy and Charlotte's green eggs, I have been waiting anxiously for a brown one. And this morning I got what I wanted. Mary Ellen, one of our Rhode Island Red's produced this cute little pinkish egg.
When I went into the coop this morning, I found Mary Ellen sqeezed into a nesting box with Lucy. It was quite funny actually but I figured she was getting an upclose and personal lesson. I left them alone and went and did chores in the big barn and when I came back, she had moved into her own box and Lucy had left me an egg and was off free ranging.
I left Mary Ellen alone and when I came back she had moved again. I new it would be today then. She was restless and trying to find a place to lay.
It was this box that did the trick and where she left her little pink egg. After bringing it into the house and giving it a wipe, I proudly went around and showed off my find....only to turn around and break it as I was putting it into the fridge! Oye!