For the last two weeks the chickens have started laying.

We have 23 hens and we are getting 19 to 21 eggs a day most days. Some are huge and a lot of them double yokers.

I don't know if the sizes will regulate once they settle into a patern.

They all seem to be ridiculously proud of themselves and make quite a racket when they've just laid an egg.

They are free range, but at this time of year that means loose in a large stall and a run around the whole of the barn on mucking out day. If you open the hatch to the field they look at you like you are completely barking.

At one day old

As young chickens

Our first half dozen