An egg four days in a row. That's a record for me. Mildred layed huge eggs but was highly erratic. Well, she was meant for the dinner table from the beginning.

On Monday I let the hens loose in the morning before work. My daughter found an egg in the tack room next to the stacks of baled hay when she went to work her goats in the afternoon.

Yesterday I left the girls locked up, and by afternoon there was an egg in the usual place (not a nest box, of course). They were let out for the afternoon for their reward.

I also did some poking around last night since an egg was laid in the tack room. I went into the goat stall and looked about, and sure enough - in a dark corner I found the empty shell of a brown egg. One end was broken off and the insides were missing.

This means either that the egg was laid there on Friday (before this egg streak started), or one of the other Reds is laying in odd places. I'll keep an eye on them to see if I can puzzle things out.

Meantime, I'm wondering if it's time to remove the plastic eggs from the nest boxes. Remembering Mildred, she never did lay in the box I put the golf ball in. She laid in the one next to it, as if she thought the other nest was taken. Of course, as I've said, she was an odd, um, duck. She laid her eggs on the floor until one day I caught her when I thought she was about to lay and put her in one of the nest boxes. That's the one she used from then on.

Maybe I should do the same with the Reds.