The Chicken Periodical

Now at the time of my last report on the chickens only one of the 6 hens had a name, though it was rather dubious and was sometimes replaced with Ugly or Raptor, flitting between the three according to mood.
I'm happy to tell that we now have names for 3 of the flock. One is still called Stubby, one Boofter (she is the largest) and another is called Amber (for her lighter shade) but since she tends to be stupider than the rest I call her the dumb blond.

For people who know that I have a sister with very blond, golden hair I congratulate you for your powers of observation, but you see I am not being unkind to Lisa because Lisa is not naturally blond.
I imagine if you know her you will be quite shocked at this but there is a reasonable enough explanation.
Lisa was born with a head of thick black hair. However, just after being born Lisa slipped head first off the delivery table (she was born in Taiwan) and landed upside down in a shallow bucketful of bleach. At the time it was popular in Taiwan to bleach the hair of newborn babies to give their hair a permanent blond colour.
In Chinese this unique colour is called liquid gold, and this is why Lisa's hair is to this day unusually golden in colour.

I bet you didn't know that.
Back to the chickens.
Thankfully all six hens have stopped eating their own eggs. Obviously that habit was very bad for business and slightly inconvenient because WE wanted to eat them.
Chickens eat their eggs because of calcium deficiency or because they're inherently weird -with our chickens it was the lack of calcium, otherwise we would have had to eat the chickens one by one until the eggs stopped disappearing.

We've solved the problem by feeding them back their own eggshells. They love them.

I've collected some photographs of some of the chickens observing and wondering at the eggs they've just laid, also I compare the regular size of our eggs with a large size store bought egg.