Already, we have seen a second egg. This morning we fed the chickens in the dark because we had to leave for the Soap Box Derby at 6:00, and there was an egg on the ground. Alex is convinced that it is a duck egg because it was not inside the coop (and the duck does not go inside the coop with the chickens). I do not believe the duck is old enough to be laying eggs, but I could be wrong. Anyway, Alex got me to help him get the egg out - as I walked up, the birds walked over the egg and it broke; the shell was paper-thin. We cleaned the broken egg out of the coop so the birds don't eat it. Eating eggs is not unhealthy for the birds, but if they ever realize that they CAN eat eggs, they will begin eating eggs - and we will never have an egg again.
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