$20 · Hatching Eggs

Got a broody hen in your life? Is she sweet but a bit of a barnyard Plain Jane? Not the Belle of the Ball? No long line up of suitors? Chances are she produces offspring in her spitting image. Sweet, but a little boring. How would you like to change all of that? I’ve got a trick that will change her destiny: slip her some of the best eggs money can buy. Let her wake up on hatch morning to some of the most stunning chicks she never thought she’d produce with her lowbrow genetics. She’ll be amazed to see a clutch full of head-turning chicks sporting crests, muffs, beards, beautiful patterning and maybe even a frizzle. To top it off they might even lay blue or green eggs. Nothing shows that special hen in your life how much you love her more than a funky bunch of eggs. For only $20 you can do your hen proud. Let her strut around the pen and be the talk of her peers. Nothing like gorgeous children to elevate one up the social ladder. She doesn’t need to know they aren’t her own, she’ll love them all the same – and so will you. Kill two birds (of course, not literally) with one stone: proud momma, proud farmer. My rooster is an F1 Olive Egger (Black Copper Marans x Isbar) who carries both blue and dark brown egg genetics. My hens are mostly crosses of Appenzeller Spitzhauben, Polish, Ameracauna and Silkie that lay varying colours of blue, green, brown, cream, white and brown. I live on Gabriola but can bring eggs to Nanaimo for downtown pick up Mon-Thurs. I occasionally work in Parksville and could take them there.