The Honest Courtesan

Usually, I see the first pullet eggs early in July, but because we got our chicks so late this year I assumed they’d start in August this time.  Sure enough, on Friday (August 1st) I found this with several full-sized eggs in the nest (my chickens generally share one nest).  So if things go as usual, we should start seeing a surge in the number of these over the next few weeks, and by October they should be getting up to full size.  The weather has been strangely cool; we’re more than halfway through summer and have only had a handful of days that would even qualify as “very warm”, and only one I’d call “hot” (over 30^o C).  It’s also been much drier than usual; though we had a lot of rainy days, the actual amount of rainfall has been well below average.  So I’m not sure what our fruit crop will look like this year; even the tomato plants seem sluggish (only one small tomato visible so far).  But with four new white leghorns, at least we should have plenty of eggs.