Today we found our first Americana eggs. One large blue one and a smaller green one. We're sure the large blue one has a double yolk, since we've found that to be the case with large eggs from young pullets. I've been waiting weeks for them to start laying, egg production in general is down because of the August heat. We finally had it cool off a little yesterday. The chickens have been getting lots of garden scraps, especially tomatoes. It hasn't been a good tomato year, they get bad quickly this year.
I've been busy canning whatever I have plenty of. Unfortunately my pickling cucumbers didn't grow well. I only have one plant that produces one pickle every couple days. I tried to find some at a farmer's market and they want $3/lb. For that much I can just buy pickles in the store. The ones I have been getting from my garden I've just been putting in the large jar of store pickles. Technically not how your supposed to do it but I never have enough to do a batch of my own and so far this new method seems to be working. So far I have canned peaches, green beans, strawberry jam, apple jelly and mint jelly. Next on the list is salsa, apples and pears.
