Friday afternoon the twins came screaming and jumping (literally) into the house. Each had a little bitty chicken egg in their hand. Saturday brought two more and today three so far, one being almost regular size. The only problem is they are laying them under the chicken house, which is not a problem for the twins, but a big problem for the mom. Once "gathering egg fever" wears off I need them to lay in the carefully constructed laying boxes that Lane built off the ground inside the chicken house. So today we put chicken wire in their ground nest and two dummy eggs in the laying boxes. We'll see how quickly they catch on. Here are the first two eggs. The third was delicious!
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Oh, how fun!! Does one always lay brown eggs?? And is the other egg a blue/green or is it white?
I have no white egg layers. All of them lay brown eggs except 2 of them who lay a blue/green egg. Whoo hoo!
This is so great, Kendy! [Though not any more great than any of your other posts I've not commented on in a long time. ;) ]
I have a little dream of having a few chickens some day, though I'm "not holding my breath" about it! lol Good for y'all! ;)
wait, how many chickens do you have? i thought you only had 2, did you collect more along the way? Fun that you don't have any white egg layers!
We started with 8 chicks and one died right away. Then we added a rooster from freecycle. All the hens are colored egg layers, white is so boring! heh heh
and brown eggs taste better.
and who can resist green eggs and ham, i mean c'mon!! haha!!
My sincerest congratulations! I love finding those first eggs! It's like crocuses in the spring or the first little bitty green tomato on the vine. Exciting.
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