There’s still more than a week until the Easter Bunny makes his rounds, but on Wednesday some young kids from Airdrie got an unusual taste of the fun to come.
It came on a field trip with their dayhome, to Randy Waldner’s farm just north of Calgary.
“Are you guys ready to look for some eggs?” Waldner asked. “Let’s go on an Easter egg hunt.”
The kids followed him into the coop where Waldner keeps his “Easter Eggers”, the nickname for a breed of chicken that lays coloured eggs.
They found them in hues of blue, olive and a dark brown that Waldner calls “chocolate”.
“Do you paint eggs at Easter time?” he asked his young visitors. “So now you don’t have to any more, cause they’re coloured for you. All ready for Easter.”
The collection of eggs also impressed dayhome operator Tiffany Kardash. “I grew up around chickens,” she said. “But we never had this kind – so it’s pretty neat to see them.”
Waldner’s coloured eggs are proving to be a popular item with people buying them to brighten up Easter.
“Right now there’s a high demand,” he said. “My chickens can’t lay fast enough.”