As I finished up my assignment for class, Mark came in with a big smile on his face.  I looked up, questions in my eyes.

Then I jumped to my feet, pulling the speaker cables off the desk in my haste.  There in his hand was....

...our first pullet egg! 

That's right, the little girls have started to lay.  The first eggs are always a bit small, but we know they'll get bigger and more numerous.  Soon we'll be swimming in eggs!

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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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