Lost/Found Eggs and a Clarification

I have two Easter Eggers who "escape"

every day.

Casper (a white Easter Egger)

and Goldie (a pale yellow EE)

(VERY few of my chickens have names...)

When you have 100+ 

that would just be silly!

Anyhow...

Goldie used to lay a green egg nearly

every day in Buddy's (the horse) feed bucket.

So I put some hay in a bucket next to it

and she moved over there.

Casper used to lay HER green egg

in the hay room in a hole she would dig

in a bale.

But then she started laying in the bucket 

with Goldie.  And so Goldie QUIT.

I wasn't finding any of Goldie's eggs.

And believe me, I LOOKED.

Well, when we finally got the lawnmower

started and moved from it's spot in the barn...

look what we found!

I was pretty sure that's where she was laying,

but couldn't get to it since the mower 

(and a bunch of other stuff)

was in the way.

Imagine a big riding lawnmower parked right here...

You know how barns can get...

Anyhow...

Not knowing how long they had been there

I did the ol' "bucket 'o water" trick.

Yah.

These have been here a while.

And over the fence they go!

Eggs

A Poem

Eggs on the counter? You need to take stock.

Fresh, placed in water, will sink like a rock.

But, if it floats to the top, like a log

Then, I'm afraid, it gets fed to the dog.

~ Collette

(Or tossed over the fence for the raccoons...)

Meanwhile--- a clarification.

Yesterday I mentioned I like mowing the front yard.

I want to be perfectly clear.

I did NOT mow the front yard.

But I could.

If I wanted to.

I just don't.