The Almeida chickens are in egg-laying overdrive right now. Not being a chicken expert (not even close), I would have thought the cold weather and shorter days would not have made our poultry friends very happy or productive.

But it turns out they are more than content. As a matter of fact, today the kids collected the biggest eggs I've ever seen. Thanks to the kids' 4-H poultry notebook, we were able to size them based on eggs people buy in the supermarket.

The egg farthest right is a Small (18 oz), the one next to it is a Large (24 oz) and the other two on the left are more than the 30oz Jumbos listed on the information sheet so we dubbed them Supersize. We're pretty sure our Comet breed hens shot those out.

Holy cow!

Or should I say ... Holy Chicken!