Jo Barlow needed six eggs for a special cake - but was it Mission Impossible for the girls?
The girls of Rosewarne have had a Very Important Mission recently. Laying eggs. And not just any eggs, these needed to be special eggs to go into a cake to celebrate their grandparents’ golden wedding anniversary.
Some people may say that a chicken laying an egg is nothing to write home about, but here, down in sunny Cornwall, the girls of Rosewarne do not often count egg-laying among their many and varied talents.
This story is from the June 2018 edition of Your Chickens.
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