EGGcellent!!!

I am so, so impressed with our chickens. Look what they did in just two days! To be sure, the turkey and the ducks can claim some credit for the larger eggs, but to me this is absolutely remarkable. Yesterday the boys collected 37 eggs! All new since Monday.



Happily I can also report that consumption of these eggs is very good for you. So to our chickens I say THANK YOU, and keep up the good work.

In case you are interested in some of the science behind our desire to keep chickens, I'll quote at length from Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon:

Shunned for several decades by orthodox practitioners as a high-cholesterol food wrongly believed to cause coronary heart disease, the egg is making the comeback it deserves....Properly produced eggs are rich in just about every nutrient we have yet discovered, especially fat-soluble vitamins A and D....Eggs from pasture fed hens have nutritional qualities that are far superior to those of battery-raised eggs and even many so-called 'free range' eggs. In particular,they contain a better fatty acid profile, one in which the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids exist in an almost one-to-one ratio; but in eggs from chickens fed only grains, the omega-6 content can be as much as 19 times greater than all important unsaturated omega-3. Other very-long chain and highly unsaturated
fatty acids-necessary for the development of the brain-are found in properly produced eggs but are almost wholly absent in most commercial eggs.