It’s great to share pictures of things going on at the farm.

We get our share of double yolker (and even two triple) eggs but this morning’s haul is worthy of sharing.

Giant egg, double the weight of a standard large egg

As the picture shows, at 119g it’s twice the weight of a regular large egg (that needs to be between 56 and 63 grams). This blows away our previous record big egg that was at 93g (if I remember correctly). Here’s how it looks compared to the other eggs from this morning, all well into the large size range.

The giant egg compared to 3 large eggs

When I moved the chicken pen to fresh pasture on the grass this morning there was our first egg lying there!

The first egg from our Pastured Chickens

Time to get the nesting boxes built. With almost two dozen hens we’re hoping to get at least a dozen a day when things are at full production. Lots of yummy breakfasts ahead

This morning is one of those classic winter days filled with potential. The sunrise was worth sharing.

Looking across the snowy front field with the sun rising

This makes 6 calves in a row that I haven’t been around to see born. Sometime mid day (I suspect) Marigold had her third calf.

Marigold and her 2010 new born Calf

Here’s a close up of the little heifer calf.

Marigold's 2010 Heifer Calf

Shortly after I took these pictures I helped the calf up and she had a good suck. I think all is well, I’m not completely sure that Marigold’s milk is full coming in, but likely that’s just me being a worried “uncle” (or some such).

The only cow left to calf now is Charlotte, but she won’t be due for several months yet I expect. This given her calf last year wasn’t born until Labour Day (fittingly perhaps). I’m now 1 and 1 on the sexes this year.

I thought I’d share a view of our new high tech lawn mowers. This model has some highly desirable features:

• Autonomous & self propelled
• Run on renewable, green energy
• Low emissions
• Thorough
• Self renewable
• Fertilizes while it mows