I don’t think many people, in particular city folk would have any idea that hens do not lay 12 months of the year. My father loved his chooks which were pretty good layers and my mother used to rub a preserving oil on the eggs so they would keep, but honestly I don’t think we ate that many eggs when I was growing up. Nowadays we would have eggs for breakfast at least once a week and I certainly use them a lot in cooking.
I don’t think many people, in particular city folk would have any idea that hens do not lay 12 months of the year. My father loved his chooks which were pretty good layers and my mother used to rub a preserving oil on the eggs so they would keep, but honestly I don’t think we ate that many eggs when I was growing up. Nowadays we would have eggs for breakfast at least once a week and I certainly use them a lot in cooking.
Lovely to hear your experience The fox got all our chickens in the end but rearing birds is a very special thing to have done .
Thankfully there were never any foxes around our area.