Hope!

Look at this!

That would be an egg J. found in the coop today. Based on the price I paid for eggs on Monday, you're looking at $0.42 right there. This five dollar a dozen egg price-thing has been killing me a bit since I have a coop full of poultry who are lounging around, eating (a lot), and definitely not laying eggs. This one single egg gives me hope that maybe my egg buying days will be coming to an end soon. It will probably be right around the same time that egg prices fall.

Truthfully, though, most of our chickens are getting a bit old, which means their egg laying is slowing down. We've been thinking we're going to wait until it's a little warmer and then buy some new chicks in the secondary coop. We have a chick warmer, but if we're going to brood them outside, it needs to be quite a bit warmer than this. And we will be brooding them outside. I don't need another round of brooding chicks in the house. I say that every year it seems like. And we're certainly not going to get more ducklings this year. Ducklings make chicks look like Felix Unger of the poultry world.