Two Eggs in One Day! A First!

We got two eggs the other day!  Woohoo!  Way to go Butterscotch!  So we're averaging an egg every two weeks from her :)

Ok Eggs

Well we're back on track with Oreo laying eggs.  Those wind eggs the other day were just a little hiccup (my fault) due to the feed I was giving them.  Oreo's laying some nice eggs now.

I hard boiled one this morning.  MMMMmmmmm good.

It's 7:45am, and she's shifted her one-hour laying time to a bit later in the morning.  I anticipate an 8:15am start to her day.

More Pictures of the Chickadies

A coworker asked for more pictures of the chickadies...  So here they are!

Mini Backyard Remodel

I'm in the process of a mini backyard remodel.  I had ripped some bushes out, and so had some bare patches in my sod, so I got those filled in.  And then my mow strip had disappeared over the past 50 years, so I added that back in and re-mulched.

Well, I say I did this work, but I mean the company I hired (Point Loma Landscape:  http://www.pointlomalandscape.com/).

I think it turned out so pretty!

New mow strip

You can see in this picture above my dry/patchy grass (see previous post for description).  Point Loma Landscape just put down new sod in areas where things were completely bare (dirt).  I didn't ask them to address the patchy grass.  I figured I'd work on that on my own (see previous post:  http://veggiegardengirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/worm-castings.html)

New sod at lower right, and along righthand retaining wall, plus new mow strip and mulch

Worm Castings

I just got some worm castings in the mail:



I'm using that as fertilizer.  My grass out back has always been troublesome.  Patchy, dry.  I got my lawn aerated recently, to try to slap some life into it.  When they aerate your lawn they also want to fertilize at the same time.  Since I was aerating the backyard, where the girls are, I didn't want them putting fertilizer down, even though they claimed it was organic.  But even weeks later, my grass still looks really dry and patchy.

So I just put down some worm castings, and I watered.  So we'll see if this makes my lawn a bit more perky.  Here's a picture of my patchy grass.  It's wet right now, since I just watered the castings in.  But you can see how patchy it is.  And when it's dry it looks REALLY dry.

Patchy grass

If these worm castings do some good, I'll post some more pictures.

Fancy Chicken Feed

This is the chicken feed I use:



It has no soy, no corn, no GMO ingredients, no chemicals, no pesticides, and is US grown and made.

I mean, if you yourself are an organic health-food type person, then you should be feeding your girls the best food because they are feeding you.

http://www.scratchandpeck.com/

Update on Wind Egg

I'm referring to this post (http://veggiegardengirl.blogspot.com/2013/05/wind-egg.html).

So Oreo never laid an egg yestereday.  That no-shell egg was her's, from earlier in the morning yesterday.  She laid another soft shell today, but it was just a leathery shell, not a no-shell, and I can tell it was her's because it was definitely pink/brown.

I think I know what's wrong, and it's my fault.  I bought two bags of feed, the last time I ordered feed.  Grower, and layer.  I did this because I ordered it just about a month before I knew they'd start laying.  Well some how I got confused, opened both bags, and removed the tag of both bags.  So now I don't know which is which!

Well, they started laying, and I was still trying to use what I thought was the grower bag up, so I was sort of just doing 2/3 layer and 1/3 grower until the bag was used up.  Well, I think I've reversed the bags, and was giving 2/3 grower and 1/3 layer.  So I called the company, to ask for help determining which bag is which (I can see a green bit of tag on one of them, and I remember the other tag was yellow).  They replied immediately, and confirmed that I got the bags switched.

So I've switched the combination of the formula to what I hope is right, and I'm mixing oyster shell in their feed.