We can accumulate quite a few eggs in a short period of time. I snapped a picture of six-dozen eggs. What a beautiful sight. :)
Monica hasn't been feeling very well lately, but we don't know what's wrong with her. I doubt she's been laying. She has been eating and drinking, so time will tell how she does.
We got a very, very small brown egg the other day. We don't know who laid it, but it was the size of a bantam egg. Since the banties only lay white- or cream-colored eggs we know it wasn't one of them.
Tiny brown egg compared to full-sized egg
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The weather has been fairly cold lately. After an unseasonably warm fall and early winter with temperatures in the 30's and 40's with freezing rain, we are finally in the clutches of the cold winter weather we have come to know so well over the years. We heat the hen house with two or three 250-watt heat lamps, depending on the temperature. At -20 or above, I use only two lamps. Anything much colder than -25 and I use three lamps.
Naturally, the cost of keeping the hen house going is rather high. I joked with one person who was buying eggs from me the other day that her eggs would cost her $20/dozen in the winter.
