You can tell we’re heading for winter. The chickens are responding to the shorter days with fewer eggs: in September they laid just 77. It takes our total for the year to 754.
That’s only just enough for our needs. We use two each on Saturday and Sunday (a total of eight), six in sandwiches each week (bringing the total to 14) and give another six to mum when we go there for dinner on a Thursday (for a grand total of 20). Multiply that by four weeks and you have 80. Suddenly the need to get ourselves some new chickens is more pressing.
We would have had 78, but someone – not sure who – managed to lay one in her sleep, sans shell, so it fell through the roosting bars, and I found it in the poo trays when I was cleaning them out yesterday. Shame, really, as it looked like a good one, with a very orange yolk.
Buying 77 eggs in the shops would have cost us £21.82 at free range prices. Buying the 754 we’ve had laid for us this year would have cost £213.63.
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