My Clever Chickens

The chicks that arrived in the mail this Spring have now come blossomed into a flock of very lovely ladies and one extremely lucky rooster, if you know what I mean and I think you do. They started laying eggs awhile back and while I’ve been kept in eggs quite nicely, I haven’t experienced the abundance you’d think with 16 hens.

Chickens

As I let the gang out of the henhouse this morning to play and frolic in their pen, I heard a noise underneath the wood ramp inside the henhouse.

As you can see in the photo, the red box is where they lay their eggs. The two boxes on top were intended for laying but they never use them.

Henhouse1

I ripped up the ramp, which had been nailed down and look what I found!

Henhouse2

And underneath the chicken?

Henhouse3

It’s going to be flan tonight!
Actually, I assume the eggs are fertile and maybe I’ll leave some to see what nature has in store for them.
In the meantime, there were still eggs in the red box this morning so I made Huevos Estilo Jalapa. What a glorious way to start the day. I’ll have the recipe here on Friday.

Huevosjalapa2

In other news…
One of my best customers is the cafe at Della Fattoria bakery in Petaluma. Chef Kay Baumhefner has left to offer her own cooking classes.  For more information on her Come Home to Cooking classes, send her an email.

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Steve Sando

I dig beans.

3 thoughts on “My Clever Chickens”

  1. Well, Eric, you were right. I grabbed two eggs from the bunch and let’s just say the rooster did have his way with the girls and that nature is a pretty amazing thing. I opened each succeeding egg with extreme caution.

    The flan turned out well, despite the drama.

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