During the winter we have enough eggs for ourselves, but as the days begin to lengthen and spring approaches the hens start to lay again in numbers.
We use them in all their forms, boiled, poached, scrambled and fried. Transformed into omelettes and pancakes. We make lemon curd and bake; for ourselves, our friends and our guests.
We have about thirty hens of mixed breeds.
We also have alot of foxes, so our hens live in a large fenced off area, and have a house to go into at night.
One of the hens will go 'broody' as the season progresses and she will sit on about a dozen eggs which will in due course hatch and join the flock.
The eggs range in colour from off white, through to brown, speckeldy and even green depending on who laid them.
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