Egg gourds
Want
to make some fun and easy gifts for the backyard chicken keeper on your
list? It's too late to start the plants this year, but a couple
of hills of egg gourds might fit the bill in 2012.
The egg gourd is a type
of decorative gourd that looks astonishingly similar to chicken
eggs. Maggie gave me three, which will soon be replacing golf balls
as nest eggs in the
chicken coop. If you do a google image search for "gourd eggs",
you'll see dozens of crafty alternatives to make use of these
non-edible squash.
Thanks, Maggie!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Maggie --- Thanks!
Heath --- I haven't actually grown them, but I think they probably do grow like other gourds.
Brandy --- Excellent point, and one which I hadn't considered. I'll let you know if anything like that happens, but I suspect it won't. Things like feather picking and egg eating seem to happen mostly to people who keep their chickens confined so they're bored and don't get enough animal protein. Our chickens are ranging far and wide and don't seem to spend enough time in the chicken coop to notice something edible in the nest.