Day 2200 Haul
My haul for the day, not bad, considering I still haven’t removed my egg-eating troublemaker. Throughout the day, I checked the nesting box, quickly removing any fresh eggs before she could get to them. At one point she was laying right next to another hen, so I pushed her out of the way to save the egg she had just laid, replacing it with a mustard-filled egg. Yup, I hollowed out an egg and filled it with mustard because, according to the internet, this will dissuade her from eating eggs once she tastes the mustard. I came inside eagerly waiting to see how my experiment would turn out, envisioning mustard all over the fresh pine shavings. But to my dismay, when I went out to check, my mustard-filled egg was gone… completely gone! That darn chicken must like mustard!? Maybe I should have used spicy brown mustard instead of plain yellow. I’ll give that a go next, but this is getting crazy. I can’t be checking the nesting box every hour, so my girls need to behave… or else! In between ...
