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I have eggs!!!!!!!!!
My chickens hatched the last week of April, making them about 19 weeks old when the first egg appeared.
Actually, two eggs. Both on the floor of the hen house.
One here in the middle of the hen house, the other in the corner.
Did I not give them golf ball signposts to show them where to lay? What is wrong with these hens? Why are all my animals so uncooperative? Have the chickens been talking to Clover?
And why do these eggs look so weird?
They’re small, which I expected, having heard that first eggs tend to be smaller than normal. (Above, the first two eggs compared to a standard storebought “large” egg.) But the color! It’s an odd greenish-gold. Not white, not brown, not the pale minty blue-green of Araucanas. Nothing I expected at all.
Several of the hens seemed quite interested in the eggs when I was picking them up from the hen house floor. This one even seemed as if she was trying to sit on one to keep me from taking it.
Did she lay one of these eggs?
Or was it this hen, who jumped on my back while I was picking the eggs up?
Or this hen, who started pecking at my feet?
What about this hen?
Or– Could it even have been her???
No one’s ‘fessing up. So all I know is…..
…..my egg basket…..
….isn’t empty….
….anymore!
Waiter! Cancel that chicken fricassee order!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on October 5, 2008
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Congrats Suzanne!!
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I’LL BRING THE BACON…..
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Congrats!
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http://www.wisegeek.com/why-are-chicken-eggs-different-colors.htm
Something I didn’t know, anyway..
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I have two chickens that lay eggs that color. Both are easter-egger mixes. They hatched from blue eggs, but their daddy was my buff orpington rooster. I think the eggs get less blue the further away from the true aracauna bloodlines they get. Still, I like the green color. When I sell my eggs at the Farmers Market, they are always a conversation piece.
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Chicken Puberty! Ha ha I love that toe-to-toe, bill-to-bill shot of the dancing ducks!
Sooz in the Tules
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WTG, Suzanne’s birds. Fresh goat milk, fresh eggs….yummy.
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;o)
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I was excited to find another DOUBLE YOLK this am, when I made eggs!!!
I keep forgetting to mention my mother had a beautiful set of white Roosters with Red top thingies (you can tell I am a farm girl, huh?), in her kitchen window, while we grew up. I think she got them in Japan. I think they were Porcelin or something.
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Hope this helps.
Signed, A Chicken Lover (but not in no weird way…)
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One other thing. I think a photo you posted once of your nest boxes showed morning sun shining directly into them. This will also deter the chickens’ use of them.
One more thing, when you pick the hens up, you standing behind them should place one hand over each wing and pick up. Set them in the box without changing your hold. This keeps them from flapping about and upsetting themselves.
Good luck,
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If I remember correctly, those are chicken eggs. My parents have raised different kinds of birds all my life. The last batch of chickens died off several years ago. (My older brother brought them home as eggs, along with some ducks, and my parents wound up caring for them.) I don’t remember the breeds of the chickens, but I do remember them laying mostly brown eggs. The first few eggs ever laid were that same golden color. I don’t know which hen did it since I didn’t get to see the eggs until my mother had washed them. After that, the rest of the eggs I ever got to see were normal shades of brown.
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