Egg Collector

Long before free-range eggs became fashionable, our chickens would run around the open spaces of our backyard in the east of London. As kids, it was our job to find the eggs. This wasn’t always easy until Daisy, our golden retriever pup, decided she wanted to help. She saw us looking for the eggs and worked out what we were doing.

Daisy would watch the chickens from a safe distance. When a hen lifted herself after laying, Daisy would be ready to collect the egg. She would then race off with it in her mouth and scratch at the back door to alert our mother of her discovery.