We got an egg! I have been checking the coop every day since they were about 5 months old. Steve tried to give them "pep" talks, which really amounted to him berating my chickens for being slackers and free loaders. Then finally, three days ago, I found an egg. It was soooo tiny, and cute, and brown. I think the chickens knew that I took it. They followed me around all day long, every time I walked anywhere they followed. This is unusual behavior for my chickens. They like to be their own birds and do their own thing. Thankfully, I am pretty sure they are unaware that I ate it. It was weird. I kinda felt bad that I was eating the creation of my pet chicken. I fried the egg just the way I like it, took a moment of silence, then I ate it.
I am sure if I did a chemical analysis of my backyard, free range chicken egg, I would find that if is far more nutritious than a store bought commercial farm egg; honestly though, my tastebuds couldn't tell the difference. Steve pointed out that that was the most expensive egg I will probably every eat.
So far, that has been the only egg. It's been three days and still nothing more. Maybe they do know that I ate it and they went on strike?