Makes you realize just exactly how much you miss the color green, doesn’t it? 😉

I also thought I’d talk about eggs today (as delicious as just plain bacon is…🥓)

Did you know that chickens’ eggs laying is connected with how much daylight there is? 

Chickens lay best with at least 14 hours of daylight, so that means that if they aren’t given any additional light during the winter, they basically stop laying. 😏

That was happening a lot here in the last few years.

The summer before our 2nd child was born (she’s 10 now…) we built a chicken coop on the back of an old grain truck. I even built a website about it (maybe some of you remember this….good grief, time flies 🙄…)

But over time and with 3 additional children being born, the truck went into disarray and the chickens were definitely NOT laying their best.

I’m so done buying eggs winter after winter when there are 40 hens outside, so this year, I moved all the chickens into the barn with the pigs. With the extra warmth from the pigs, and leaving on a barn light all the time, we’ve been in eggs all winter so far!

Good Morning Eggbake