Fact: Chickens Lay Eggs Standing Up. Video.

Here I will show you.

I had dismantled the laying boxes yesterday, taking off the front plank preparing for the spring clean. I was sweeping out the boxes when this chicken insisted on climbing in and laying her egg. Quick. Quick. She said. She wiggled about a bit then stood still, squatted slightly and laid her egg.

Not even caring that the nesting box had no ‘nesting’ left in it. And was not even swept yet. It was a lovely egg though.

The chickens laid 18 eggs yesterday, which is good as lots of people around here need eggs.

I let the cows out into the fields.

I know that there is not enough grass out there. And I know it is way too early. And when I was walking the fences I had to do quite a bit of repair after the winter. But I just could not bear having them on the concrete and in the sacrifice paddock anymore.

One of these beef cows goes into the locker in a couple of months and green grass is so good for them.

They will still be getting hay though – I saved the good alfalfa hay for this ‘finishing’ period.

This is the ducks rooster.

Cat 4 Thunder Storm last night.

It is the last day of the month so I guess you could say that March is going out like a lion after its gentle start.

We did not get those screechy warnings on the phones though and these Cirrocumulus clouds yesterday evening gave me no real warning either so I went to bed unaware of what was barreling towards us.

But I was awoken at 1.30 to very high winds. Not much sleep again. It was a loud storm!.

All the animals had taken shelter, the ducks went under the porch, there were massive wind gusts, doors smashed open, Boo went under the bed and great floods of loud rain. Now, this morning, there is just wind, and even sun! The powers that be have a storm warning in place from noon. The usual stuff, damaging winds, hail and possibly a tornado.

Though I don’t worry much about tornadoes here where we are. Our land is very low, and the Old Codger had never seen a tornado through here in his life and he lived here for a hundred years.

Typical farming outfit. I am in the little grain shed that I stole from the ducks. This is the most ungainly shot in the world but it made me laugh. Boo took it! He is hopeless at angles.

See those feed bags of vegetarian pig feed? (For Jude and FreeBee) I reuse those bags in the house for trash bags. Everything gets at least a second use in The Sustainable Home.

Have a lovely day.

Celi