Eggs-cellent Idea!!

I did a little snooping yesterday afternoon when I put the chickens back in the coop for the night.  SOMEONE has been busy!!  Ever since Honey told me that the eggs won't grow baby chicks until the temperature of the egg is "just right"...I've left them alone.  I figured that some of my hens WANT to be mothers.  I just didn't know they wanted it so BADLY!! (Who knew chickens could be so prolific??!)

The count was 78 eggs!!!  SOMEONE IS WORKING OVERTIME!  These eggs are dispersed amongst the 12 nest boxes available inside the coop, but I think that's just a ploy to confuse me & make me think ALL my hens are involved.   I'm just a little apprehensive!  I envision being suddenly over-run with baby chicks.....which quickly grow into large chicks.....which all need to be FED!  It's all I can do to keep the core group of 23 chickens fed!  I spend $20 month on 'scratch grain'.  The rest of the time.....it's a  "free range" buffet in the pasture......and whatever scraps I have from the kitchen!

Well, Honey tells me I should put a sign out by the road, advertising my "fresh eggs for sale".  He says I can probably get $2 - $3 dozen for them.  A dozen of these would certainly be a strange variety of mixed sizes & colors!  I've got Silver-Laced Wyandotts, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Delawares, and Araucanas (commonly known as Easter Egg Chickens, 'cause they layed colored eggs!)  HEY!!  THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD SELLING POINT!  Araucanas lay beautifully colored eggs of blue-green shades from turquoise to deep olive.
Yessiree, folks!!  Get your eggs ALREADY DYED just in time for Easter!! These would be 'dual-purpose' eggs.....you can eat 'em or incubate 'em & grow your own chickens!  (Honey might be onto something here!!)

Oh well.....if my chicken population gets too far out of hand, I have a niece who will probably take in the 'overflow' (right, Lora??) LOL