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| Tracey |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 09:15:14 AM
I've been checking for eggs once or sometimes twice a week, as I've only had one hen laying (all summer pullets) through the winter. Well, this morning I went out to find FIVE eggs! The one egg I've been getting as been a pink/ivory color...the other four today were BLUE! Someone new has been busy 
The brown egg is a size comparison, as these chickens have a bit of bantam in their background and lay smaller eggs.
Because it's been so chilly out, I just went ahead and popped these into the fridge for eating. However, I'm going to start collecting the blue eggs for hatching as I'm wanting to raise blue hens that lay blue eggs.
Does anyone know how long it takes before an egg is fertile? I mean...the roos are all in with the hens, but if I were to take a pair of hens and put them with just one roo, at what point would I know for sure that the eggs they lay belong to that roo and aren't the offspring of the other boys?
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| Horseyrider |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 10:04:19 AM
That's MUD?!?! OMG, I thought those were mottled shells like a sparrow has!!!
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| katie-ell |
Posted - Feb 27 2007 : 04:43:31 AM
Pretty pretty eggs! What color are the yolks? (Ha!)
katie |
| Tracey |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 10:08:50 PM
Kathy, this is a mix that a friend of mine has been 'breeding', although I use the term lightly. She's had a closed flock for four years now; they're a mix of a little aracauna, phoenix and some type of bantam. As you can tell by the size of the egg, they're a small chicken. I selected black ones from her flock in hopes of getting the blue eggs from blue hens...at least one of the hens is doing her job
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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 5:44:08 PM
What bright and beautiful colors! Is at an Auracauna laying them? Mine are usually pale colored eggs, not that bright! Beautiful!
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| Tracey |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 5:34:04 PM
Thanks, Alicia!
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| LadyCrystal |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 4:42:28 PM
When we change males in our breeding we wait a week before we are sure it is from the new male. We keep records of which eggs came from which pens so we know when we have winners in the show pen. It is fun to track a chick to adulthood to see what they come out like. Good luck,
Alicia
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| Tracey |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 1:57:37 PM
LOL, Nancy Jo, I am!
They're awfully messy looking, aren't they? But it's been so wet that their feet are all muddy. I took the pic before brushing most of it off...City Boy'll never eat them looking like that
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 11:55:13 AM
Well Tracey, your all set for Easter now.
NANCY JO
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| Horseyrider |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 11:09:49 AM
Oooh Tracey, those are beautiful! Gosh, I have terrible chicken envy! I wouldn't mind having some hens again. |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 10:50:51 AM
Lovely color! What a nice surprise!
Karin |
| shelle |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 10:16:00 AM
Ooh pretty eggs!! I dont know much about chickens to give you any answers but I am sure jealous of those eggs!
Shelle
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 10:07:50 AM
Pretty eggs. We just always had a rooster and the eggs were fertile. I think they just breathe on each other HAha! MB
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 26 2007 : 10:01:34 AM
Those are sooo pretty!!! Those hens would sure be mad at me, I think--I'd be out there everyday with a camera!
I don't know one thing about the why's of eggs, but I do know that you have lovely ones!
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