Egg hunt

Today was an 'I feel great day'. The baby shifted which left moving easier for me sans round ligament pain.  I managed a walk that only left me slightly breathless instead of recouperating in the recliner.  Once we finished school I kicked us all out of the house.  Fifty degrees on a December day?  Crazy awesome!  Wanting to take advantage of the weather I decided to traipse through the forest.  My reason was threefold.  First, I wanted to move rather than sit after our school session.  Second, I wanted to see if I could find the bodies of our two missing chickens from the day that our dog's name was changed from Emmy to chicken killer.  Thankfully I didn't find any (was afraid I'd missed them and the chance to at least process them for the freezer), so I'm still guessing as to what happened.  Third, I was hoping to find some eggs.  Our latest birds were youngest case scenario six months old and still not laying.  This has been baffling me as our first hatchlings  started laying at four months and the second set at five months.  So to have birds that were at least six months old if not older and not producing was troublesome to me.  My efforts paid off as I found a well protected nest deep in the forest!  All counted there were fourteen eggs, and all of them passed the freshness test.

Now the mystery remains of how many of them are from the gals that were already laying and how many are from the 'newbies'.