First Fairy Egg

Today my husband went to check on the chickens and came back with a rather lovely and weird surprise. One of our chickens had laid an unbelievably tiny egg. Seemed like something was wrong but after a bit of research we found out that this is completely normal and these tiny cute eggs are called fairy eggs or witch eggs. Apparently sometimes a hen will lay a fairy egg when something has disturbed her reproductive cycle. Sometimes a hen will lay a fairy egg or two just as she comes into laying, before her reproductive system has gotten into gear. They are sometimes lighter or darker than her regular eggs because they may spend more or less time in the "egg painting" area of her system, the shell gland. It is normally nothing to be concerned about. 

I think in our case since most of our chickens are so young the reason for this egg is the fact that she is setting up to start laying more and more eggs. It's so nice that we get to learn and experience so many things first hand. We are new to the eggs business and so far it's quite interesting and well the chickens are so cute hehe

Newborns

One of the most exciting things at the farm are when a cow gives birth. You get to witness a miracle and they make it look so easy!! usually my husband leaves the cow for 2 hours so that she would have a chance at a normal birth before interfering that is of course unless something out of the ordinary takes place in which case he would step right in. This week was a record of 6 baby calves :) 4 males and 2 females and thankfully it's not that cold which makes caring for them a bit easier. The last newborn was so excited that he actually started sniffing and looking around while half of him was still inside his mom (pic below).

We have designed a tiny "nursery" for the little ones which is located at the back of the farm. Its an enclosed warm space where they get to run around and stay water and cold free. 
Some people call and ask for Liba which is kind of Karishe only it's taken from the cows first milking after they give birth which is nutrient full and amazing for the calves. Honestly most of the times we claim we don't have any in order to feed the calves as it is like a baby missing out on his mother's breast milk. It gives them all they need to survive and be healthy. So humans can wait hehehe That's it for today i guess, not much going on but then again a farmers life is known for the routine, which cows love btw and it makes everything a whole lot easier for everyone.