3 posts in 2 days must be a record, but I've found time to post between waiting for a cake to cool.

dhylis, Penny and Sylvie took themselves off to bed last night in the purple eglu - without a fuss, which was a real breakthrough - we even had an egg from Dhylis in the purple cube nest box. I let them out this mornig and they flew out - I think they are getting the hang of it - finally...

The new girls are settling in OK, I opened the door to the eglu this morning and they all just looked at me - amazed that they were allowed out. Jerry came out first,, but I left Margo and Babara in there and went back to bed (it was 7.15am!). (margo below)We we got up after the Grand Prix, all 3 girls were in the run, with the little 3 running around, not really to fussed by them. Tom checked the nest box, not really hopeful for mch given the stressful day they had had yesterday - but a huge surprise - we have 2 eggs - which are like hand granaids compare to dhylis's little eggs. The neighbour commments on the noise - saying she loves hearing them when they lay an egg, and she'd heard them this morning (we'd heard nothing at all). So 2 eggs, no idea who from though yet.

So the good life = 2 eggs now.

shocking - but I had to buy eggs today - free range - organic medium eggs, £1.59 - so 9p more expensive than the chickens were - how sad is that?