Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Update on Lilith

So I went out after about a half hour and released the Black Star. She ran straight to the coop. When I opened the coop door I found it vacated. I had not latched it so it must have blown open enough for the girls to exit. At that point I decided Lilith was on her own. A few new sitters came in and the Black Star renewed her shenanigans. So back she went to stir.
At that point I left with the dogs, Daisy, Figaro, Mattie, and Grizzly, for an outing on snowshoes. We met Barbara (owner of Bailey's Mills B&B) and went for a loop through the field and down to Faerie Land. It was about 1 1/2 hours by the time we got back.
By then Betty, (I just named her) had laid her egg and went back to the gen pop. After the last egg gathering I had three white eggs for the day. I only have three white egg layers, Gracie, a Brown Leghorn, Dahlia, a Black Minorca, and Lilith, the Ancona, so Lilith must have gone back on her own. Good job girls.
However, Magda, AKA Thumby, was now in distress. She was checking out nooks and shelves, everywhere but the nesting boxes. Into stir she went and a little while later she produced a lovely medium sized almost pink egg. 18 eggs so far. Pretty good haul.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is no way you could work at a job with all this going on. Good thing.

Anonymous said...

More pics will be terrific. Good luck with that.