One more egg collected last night for a total of two yesterday.

The second laying hen is for the moment starts doing her thing around 6:30 because I caught her on the nest again. She went out with the others to scratch a little, but then went right back in. So I caught her and put a red band on her leg. Looking at her, it might be Lucy, who I always thought was the skinny one. Might explain the smaller eggs (yeah, I know, she's not experienced yet - but there's a marked difference between hers and Eve's).

Two more to start laying before I wait on the chicks to grow up.

Rocky showed a little courage today - he was eating out of the goat feed pan at the same time that Lewis and Clark were stuffing their muzzles from it. And Jean-Bob's comb is still a bright red, brighter than the other Wyandottes. I still suspect that she might be a he, kind of the reverse of that old Lou Reed song.

Please note the addition of a new link category for Chicken Blogs. The first entry is Pecked, a discovery from the Backyard Chickens Message Boards. Whereas I write more about the daily, mundane side of things, Pecked is where poultry and philosophy some how meet and co-exist. There's some very good writing going on there.