Charlie's Very Bad Hair Day

Last Friday, Charlie decided to eat breakfast next to a burdock plant.

He ended up getting his mane tangled in HUNDREDS of burdock burrs. Pasture-mate, Jubilee, was not impressed with this new look.

Charlie was so embarrassed to have all those burrs in his mane.

 Lucky for Charlie, his owner took pity on him and channeled all of her girly energy and talents into making him handsome again.

Using a step stool, a comb, and 40 minutes of her time, the owner got the boy looking presentable for Jubilee (although some burrs remain).

A much more confident horse!

GIANT EGG

Last Sunday I reached into the nesting box and discovered that Brownie has laid this HUGE egg.

Brownie's (the ISA Brown) jumbo egg in comparison to the eggs from the Dominique and Wyandotte).

The jumbo egg in comparison to Brownie's regular eggs.

This sucker weighed in at 103 grams (she usually lays eggs between 65-70 grams). It can be dangerous for a chicken to lay really large eggs because she could get egg-bound (which is a nice way of saying that the egg gets stuck in the chicken. Not fun, not fun at all).

I felt bad for the girl-- that couldn't have been easy laying that egg. I vowed to not waste her effort and fried up the egg for breakfast the next day. It was delicious!

The egg turned out to be a double yolker.

Beautiful Fall Day