Diana and Jim got a half a dozen of the famous Elvira eggs in last week’s Namegiving Party.

The eggs were an award for suggesting names for our chickens. Diana and Jim suggested the name Chiquita, which we chose to be as a name for the smaller yellow chicken.

Diana reports that the Elvira eggs were delicious – actually, the best ones she has ever eaten. She made a potato tortilla out of the eggs. Gourmet eggs, that’s what Elvira’s eggs are.

Namegiver Morales, assistants Lyon, Grace, Marie, Frida the Chicken and me

The House of Eggriculture turned into a party scene last Friday evening. Over 40 people came to celebrate the official namegiving occasion for our chicks. The highlight of the evening was the namegiving ceremony, in which
we had an honor to have the only professional chicken namegiver in the Mission – “Father” Frank Morales to name our chickens, assisted by an international group of children.

See more of the extremely entertaining ceremony in the video below, and find photos on my Flickr stream.

Donna and the first egg

Elvira finally laid her first egg. She must be over her trauma which she got when she was abandoned in the streets of San Francisco.

We are happy about that because now we don’t need to hire a chicken therapist – that would have been financially burdening especially now that Donna got a letter from the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector.

The letter says Donna has to pay extra fees on the top of her taxes. We don’t like that.

The nasty letter, nice pink though

But the egg made us happy. Donna found the egg in the coop in the afternoon when she came home from work. It is a very small egg, and brown.

We will save it for a while before eating it – but we won’t wash the egg, as they told us in the chicken class not to. That would damage the natural foil that covers the egg. With the natural foil, the egg doesn’t need to be refridgerated either.

May our life be filled with free range, fully organic eggs from now on!

Damn, I just bought a dozen eggs in Trader Joe’s yesterday. And as of now, we will start getting an egg per day from Elvira. An omelette, anyone?

The Egg

Our Elvira is now famous. She made it to the news. Elvira loved being interviewed by a Mission Local reporter who wanted to tell a story about rescue chickens. Here’s the story: