The only thing I had to report from the week before last was the collection of 47 eggs. From last week, 48 eggs, and 25 already through this evening for an August total of 203. If all of the hens aren't laying yet, they're getting close. I suspect the holdouts are the bottom-of-the-pecking-order White Rock and Eleanor Rigby, the young Rhode Island Red.

Most of the time over the last couple of weeks has been to prepare for the county fair, where my daughter will be showing her goats - one dairy and two harness. Too late I started thinking that maybe I should show Roger - he's turned into one good looking rooster. Maybe next year.

So I'll be at the fairgrounds on and off this week. I was there Monday to run some errands and I checked out the poultry barn to see if there was anything there that caught my interest. There was a beautiful trio of Barred Rocks, but they were bantams, and a trio that I think may have been Partirdge Wyandottes. I'd love to have a PW rooster, but technically I have too many roos as it is. The only reason I don't have trouble, I suspect, is because I let my flock free range.

So I'll be hitting the poultry barn again and signing up for Ross chicks from a local poultry producer (this time they really will end up as dinner). And will I end up bringing more pullets home? Depends on how much money I have at the end of the week and how badly my dear spouse will kill me if I do...