Have you ever heard of a "Pigken"

It is a long story, but needless to say the mother and veterinarian in me took over and I bottle raised two of the piglets from Hamlet's first litter.  Sarah Katherine took the liberty of naming them "Shaggy and Scooby". (She watches a lot of classic cartoons with her daddy)

Well, Shaggy doesn't know that she is a pig!  She follows us around where ever we go on the farm. If we are gone, then she takes right up with the chickens. Most mornings you would find her asleep on our front door step with the dog and occasionally a rooster, but now she eats with the chickens, drinks with the chickens, and sleeps with the chickens.

Here she is drinking out of their waterer and belly up to the chicken feeder with the rest of the chickens.  Yesterday, I found her asleep in the middle of about 5 chickens!

 At night, she climbs right up into the "egg mobile" and sleeps with the chickens.  I will be really amazed if she starts laying eggs!

Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs

We had battled hawks that were eating our chickens.  Then, the "blizzard of 2011" slowed our egg production down to a couple of eggs a day.....we now have 13 dozen eggs every 6 days!  These are some working girls!

We wash the eggs daily and package them into recycled containers. If you would like some eggs then Click Here 

It is so great to go out to our eggmobile and see the nesting boxes full of eggs!  I do feel like Bubba Gump since we are having scrambled eggs, omelettes, eggs benedict, eggs over easy, eggs sunny side up...you get the point.  A reminder that we are still taking recipes for our Best Egg Recipe Contest that ends this month.  We will post our favorites on our blog and our Grand Champion Recipe will