22 eggs this morning (4 duck eggs and the 18 stashed eggs!) I can't say how many times I've read where chicken owners have been wondering why their chickens have stopped laying, only to find a hidden stash of eggs. I've always read that and thought "geesh, I wish that would happen to me" as I collect my one or two eggs a day from my 5 hens, thinking what a bunch of lazy good for nothing chickens I have. Well guess what? It finally happened. I was feeding my girls this morning when I saw a little black hen skip out of an unused stall. I thought hmm...what is she doing back there? Sure enough I found a hidden stash. 18 eggs in eggs in all.
I brought them in and hubby asked "are you sure they're all good?" being the bad food skeptic he is. I said yes confidently since the girls have only been slacking off the last couple of weeks (or so I thought).
Thinking about it some I thought I had better test the eggs since if hubby ever cracked a rotten egg from my chickens that would be the last egg he'd eat from here. So I float tested them.
For those not in the know-float testing is where you put the eggs in water deep enough for them to either sink or float. If they sink they're good, if any float, you'd best be tossing the floaters as they are bad. Happily all eggs passed the float test.
I brought them in and hubby asked "are you sure they're all good?" being the bad food skeptic he is. I said yes confidently since the girls have only been slacking off the last couple of weeks (or so I thought).
Thinking about it some I thought I had better test the eggs since if hubby ever cracked a rotten egg from my chickens that would be the last egg he'd eat from here. So I float tested them.
For those not in the know-float testing is where you put the eggs in water deep enough for them to either sink or float. If they sink they're good, if any float, you'd best be tossing the floaters as they are bad. Happily all eggs passed the float test.
No floaters here, they're all good
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