It won’t be long, my friends. It won’t be long until some of the girls start laying. Perhaps a week, perhaps a month. If they are really late bloomers, sometime in October, but it won’t be long. I am checking their laying boxes daily even now though.
Check out this cute Easter Egger giving me the eye:
Are you Lookin’ at Me?
Did you know that chickens are near-sighted in one eye and far-sighted in the other? According to FreshEggsDaily.com:
Just before hatching, a chick turns in the shell so its right eye is next to the shell (and absorbs light through the shell) and its left eye is covered by its body. As a result the right eye develops near-sightedness to allow a chicken to search for food, while the left eye develops far-sightedness, to allow a chicken to search for predators from afar. That is why when a hawk flies overhead, you will notice your chickens tilt their heads with their left eye to the sky.
I suppose this means she was using her right eye so she could see me better. 🙂