Join with us on our adventure as we build East Alstead's first brewery and what is quite possibly the only off-grid commercial brewery in the United States. We feel that what we brew and how we brew it are equally important. If you would like to help out with this project, contact me at: tim@belgianmare.com.




The Belgian Mare Says Hello!

Monday, December 26, 2011

New Life For an Old Bird

I hope everyone had a good holiday season.  Things are going well here at the farm.  The most noteworthy occurrence has been the resurrection of one of our chickens.  Maybe not a true resurrection, but a pretty good comeback.

Our last remaining Leghorn had been laying misshapen, wrinkly eggs for some time.  Then she laid shell-less eggs for a while. This could be a real mess when she would try to lay in a nest that already had other eggs in it.  The membrane of the shell-less egg would break and cover the other eggs in goop and make a mess of the nest box.  Eventually, she just stopped laying all together.  That was a few months ago.

Imagine our surprise when we found a perfectly shaped, extra-large white egg last week.  The next day brought another.  Then another the day after that.  She has now laid an egg for four days in a row!  Pretty good for a three year old Leghorn!