OK, it’s official, the days are getting longer. How do I know? The girls are laying more eggs. They are not up to their normal summertime output of a dozen eggs per day, but getting six eggs in one day is a sure sign that spring will once again return to the land.
The last several weeks we have only had two or three eggs per day. When I collected eggs this evening I collected six. A nice change. I guess that the girls are happy even if yard is mostly covered in snow.
This is another malt forward beer. This is a dark Irish Red Ale. It has a bit of a fruity character balanced with roast bitterness. Pours with a nice creamy head that hangs on for a couple of minutes. The recipe came from the March/April 2009 issue of Zymurgy.
Normally if you hear the phrase “Chicken with Grits” you think of something that you would eat. I guess in a way it does end up being that (after their eggs have been collected). In this case this is a description of the feeding frenzy that will happen in the hen house on a cold winter’s morning.
To help warm the chickens, improve their attitude and just basically spoil them, the chickens will sometimes get a warm pot of grits for breakfast. For those that are not familiar with grits, they are a course ground corn cereal or mush. I like mine with Frank’s Hot Sauce and salt and pepper. The chickens get theirs plain.