What was in the extra jumbo egg?

102.5 egg with double yolk.

The Extra, extra jumbo egg and egg info

Yesterday my daughter went to put the girls up and found these two eggs in the nest box.

The blue egg weighs 102.4 grams and the brown egg weighs 54.2 grams.  I don't really know much about
the grading system of eggs and ran across this helpful page with information on quality & grades of eggs.
A Jumbo egg must weigh at least 70gm.  The brown egg fell into the medium category between 49-55gm.

Egg in carton 

 

It's candle time again!

This year the candles are getting a few additions.

More to come!

Bee Camp

Last week and this week is bee camp at Oakhurst community gardens.

We learned about bees, crushed and strained honey, used solar wax melter to clean wax and then made poured candles with the wax.  Lots of honey and honey products are being enjoyed and we built in lots of free play time to just enjoy the wonders of the garden.  This week should prove to bee just as much fun!

Smithy bee swarm

I was contacted yesterday about a swarm of bees that was high (30ft) in a tree on Friday/Saturday then moved to the ground Sunday/Monday.  They were reported as being a bit defensive (poor basset hound was the one to find them on the ground) so my first thought was that they might have been poisoned already and would probably be gone by this am when I could go and look at them.  Luckily for me they had reformed on a branch that hung from about 2.5ft high to the ground with their weight.  I would guess it was 5+lbs of bees.  I picked up the part of the branch that was laying on the ground and put in into the swarm box and then simply snipped branch that held the bees and I had the queen and most of the bees.  They are now living at my friends house and they seemed quite happy to have a roof, stores and a place to lay eggs.  Per request of the nice couple who contacted me to get these bees I dub thee Smithy Bees.

What happened?

Last night we had a pretty bad storm here and the kids and I were out.  I had thought that I put the chicks back up before I left, but when we returned home I found 5 little chicks huddled under the coop and the 6th is nowhere to be found.  I was hoping somehow she would be in the coop and waiting to rejoin her friends when I woke this am, but I still see no trace of her.

Since I don't know what happened, I think they will not be having anymore outings for a couple of weeks w/o supervision.  

More of the chicks

The chicks were starting to look a little cramped in their brooder so finally broke down and purchased the floor covering.

Max of course had to check out the new flooring right away.  He said he thinks they will like the pretty diamond pattern.  LOL