Spot the difference.

A day of puttering at home, one of my tasks is washing the eggs every couple of days. I'm a fairly effecient and flexible machine when it comes to this task having cleaned thousands of eggs over the past years. At the beginning and end of the hens' laying cycle they sometimes get their eggs a bit out of whack.........like too many yolks in one egg. Or they forget to put a shell around it, and just lay it with it's little membrane, these are fun to give to an unsespecting person that hold their hand out expecting a fragile, but hard shelled egg and get this "creapy" object.

For the most part keeping hens is enjoyable and profitable, you just have to keep them fed and happy. Every once in a while I have predator problems, but over the years one gets that sorted out. They love their greens and something to scratch around in. A couple of spots where they can have a sand bath and they are content.

I had sworn off having a rooster for years, but somehow this spring."Loudmouth" as my grand daughter has named him, slipped in with the flock of new hens. He's been good though, I gave him a good talking to and he gets it for the most part as he keeps the volume down in the early hours of the morning. He definitely looks after his flock, challenging any strangers, breaking up any hens fighting and well...........you know.