We are babysitting a chook. Well, actually, we were babysitting two chooks, but one died on the 2nd day. Fortunately, it died of natural causes not of Patterson poisoning!!!
Anyway, she's a nice chook, but she's old and all her friends had died. We couldn't find a nest so we assumed she wasn't laying anymore! This morning Eldon went out to feed the chook and couldn't find her anywhere. "Here, chookie, chookie...!" He stuck his head around the corner of the house and there she was, all fluffed up behind the tree. "Hon, I think you better come and see her, she might be laying an egg." So off I go...sure enough, she's laid an egg...plus 13 others which she'd obviously been laying for several weeks!
Unfortunately the temperature being so hot up here, most of the eggs had already gone off so I've put them gingerly into our trash bin hoping that they don't get broken before they get to the dump!
So now we are babysitting a laying chook which is nice for the egg supply. We are surprised she didn't get clucky with all those eggs to sit on!
