That Silly Sophie!

Today I asked Frank to pull some hay down from the hay stack because I had used everything I could easily reach. So he goes outside and quickly comes back to the house saying, "You've GOT to come see this! I'll get a ladder for you." So I climb up the ladder and this is what I see:



What!? That bad little bird has been hiding her eggs for at least two weeks as there were FOURTEEN eggs in three different nests tucked there in the hay! I did the freshness test and all of them stayed in the bottom of the bowl and did not float, so I'm going to put them in the fridge and use them soon. We Americans often forget than many other developed countries don't refrigerate their eggs and even sell them off the regular shelves like bread. But regardless, I'll be careful.


The is the main nest with the majority of the eggs. The funny thing is that one of the eggs obviously isn't hers as it is much bigger and a different color. I have no idea how one of the big hens got all the way up there! Wow!


This is the hay stack and the eggs were right about where that dust spot is in the center one row down from the top. If you look at the next picture, the eggs were on top of the row of bales that are higher than Bailey's head. That tricky little bird!