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I know this is silly, but I'm absolutely thrilled over the beautiful assortment of eggs I'm getting from my flock this year! They've been laying since February, with no unnatural light or heat, and even the eggs I'm getting from my 2012 hens are huge, beautiful, and tasty!
I just HAD to post a picture :D
I just HAD to post a picture :D
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Black Copper Marans, Blue Splash Marans, Cuckoo Marans, various Cochins, black and white Langshans, Red Jersey, Barred Rocks, Orpingtons, several Wyandottes, Japanese Phoenix, Mille Fleur, Aracaunas and Americaunas (basically mutt Aracaunas), Black Sumatras, Brahmas, Speckled Sussex, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Brahmas, and one Exchequer Leghorn
It also depends on the chicken. Hens of the same breed will have similar eggs but if you know your girls pretty well, you can tell the difference in the shape, tint and speckles. A pair of sisters (don't remember the breed, just the color- Buff) I had one laid a more narrow egg and the other was slightly more rounded. My Amercaucanas, I could tell by the light/darker tints of greens/blues and the egg shape who laid which egg.
I miss my girls, and my boys.
I miss my girls, and my boys.
Gosh, I haven't seen a blue egg since I was much littler and we had chickens and ducks! :D Or a really heavily speckled brown one for that matter.
Beautiful looking harvest. I guess I never thought of you in a farmerly/homesteaderly manner. The neat things you learn about people. :)
Beautiful looking harvest. I guess I never thought of you in a farmerly/homesteaderly manner. The neat things you learn about people. :)
Make your own Rukis. All you do is cross you blue/green eggers to a dark brown egg layer. Any resulting pullets from the cross will be olive eggers.
My personal olive eggers were crosses between Ameraucana and Cuckoo Marans. It should work with any blue/green egger crossed to a dark egger. The genetics for the blue eggs are dominant, but the genetics for the brown "eggs" modifies it to create the green. The darker your "brown" genetics, the darker the "olive" will be to your olive egger. :)
My personal olive eggers were crosses between Ameraucana and Cuckoo Marans. It should work with any blue/green egger crossed to a dark egger. The genetics for the blue eggs are dominant, but the genetics for the brown "eggs" modifies it to create the green. The darker your "brown" genetics, the darker the "olive" will be to your olive egger. :)
I have 26 hens and three roosters, only one of which actually stays with the flock.
A lot of my birds lay as many as five eggs a week, but I'd say about half of them lay less than that. I chose a wide assortment of breeds, rather than focusing on the best layers. But I get some really beautiful feathers :)
A lot of my birds lay as many as five eggs a week, but I'd say about half of them lay less than that. I chose a wide assortment of breeds, rather than focusing on the best layers. But I get some really beautiful feathers :)
One a rooster starts producing testoserone, they're actually pretty tough, gamey and generally unpalatable. We have slaughtered a few and made them into dog-food tho. The boys seemed to enjoy it :P At one point we had three or four Leghorn roosters. They were not only noisy and obnoxious, but also really aggressive... so into the soup pot they went!
we had five, I still have pictures of them when there were babies I can upload them if you want, it was our emu but we gave them to my grand-father since he had more space for them and really wanted them XD so we gave them to him, he had to sell them lately, my grand father is getting a bit too old and one day he went to clean the pen an since my grand dad is that little 5'4'' 90 pound man, he got knocked over an now was kinda scare to go back there because he also his hemophiliac so, he can't risk getting hurt, emus are super sweet and you can even pet them, but sometime they get a bit exited and can start running around carelessly and since they are kinda big lol.
funny fact his that since emu are from Australia and I am in Canada, here instead of laying egg in spring they do right in the midle of winter :P
also there eggs are one of the most beautiful, they have 2 shades of green like they had benn painted and they have textured surface, it look like a Dragon egg XD
btw, sorry for the bad english, it's not my first language XD
funny fact his that since emu are from Australia and I am in Canada, here instead of laying egg in spring they do right in the midle of winter :P
also there eggs are one of the most beautiful, they have 2 shades of green like they had benn painted and they have textured surface, it look like a Dragon egg XD
btw, sorry for the bad english, it's not my first language XD
I loved looking after a friend's chickens and can't wait to have my own... They're such beautiful and spunky creatures and eating the eggs is satisfying!
My mate promised that I can keep some once we have a place where we can - believe me, I'm holding him to that!
I'd love to have such a variety! A friend up the road has a big flock too, he mainly gets blue eggs. I'm terrible with remembering/recognising breed names, but he has quite the selection! Though now he has too many roosters and they are far too noisy xD
My mate promised that I can keep some once we have a place where we can - believe me, I'm holding him to that!
I'd love to have such a variety! A friend up the road has a big flock too, he mainly gets blue eggs. I'm terrible with remembering/recognising breed names, but he has quite the selection! Though now he has too many roosters and they are far too noisy xD
I used to have barred plymoth rocks they were big chickens and laid brownish eggs... my hen only produced eggs for a year or two I dont remember exactly but she lived a long time until some kind of long rodent like a weasle or something squeezed into the pen at night and got them. :(
I recognize the green eggs! It's that breed of chicken with green legs and have really pretty markings when they're chicks! Used to buy them for $1.75 a chick way back in the 1990s when I lived on my great grandfathers ranch! :)
What type of feed mixture you use? With ours we mixed bone meal, scratch meal, small pinch of crushed clam shell, protein pellets and sometimes throw away meat the butcher gave free to us. Yes I know the last part sounds gross but all our hens were beefy (more muscle then fat), healthy and double yoke was common! *giggles*
What type of feed mixture you use? With ours we mixed bone meal, scratch meal, small pinch of crushed clam shell, protein pellets and sometimes throw away meat the butcher gave free to us. Yes I know the last part sounds gross but all our hens were beefy (more muscle then fat), healthy and double yoke was common! *giggles*
That's just what we used. Here in Seward Alaska I was a hired hand for a lady who raised chickens. Used to get her table scraps from the Peking restaurant, like three buckets full, I would feed it to the chickens and its hilarious watching chickens run around with Chinese noodles in there beaks and fighting over Mongolian Beef broccoli! Lol! Ah I don't mean to bore ya, but that would be an idea if you could scavenge scraps from any local eat out joints. Save a fortune on chicken feed anyway.
We have 15 mixed hens, 1 rooster and 3 turkeys. Them turkey eggs are buggers to get into though, but all are very yummy eggs. We get Pink/beige, white, light brown and dark brown with a few having speckles. At the moment we're getting small beginner eggs and every so often a bantam throws us a real tiny one compared to one of the white girl's huge eggs.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6142506/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9145339/ one of our first mixed breed chicks
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9160592/ the other mixed breed chick
We have two hens that will sit and bring up their chicks naturally so we trialled them with only a few eggs to see it they would succeed and they did. Called the first chick Pepper, the second one Salt or snowy and the other hen had one on its own a month or so later that we called Spice. All of them are speckled but multi-coloured. Next one that goes clucky we'll let have a full clutch of 6 or so and see what happens.
Love the photograph of all of them together. I must look into getting some of the hens that lay blue eggs as I've only ever had blue eggs from the ducks several years ago.
*hugs*
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6142506/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9145339/ one of our first mixed breed chicks
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9160592/ the other mixed breed chick
We have two hens that will sit and bring up their chicks naturally so we trialled them with only a few eggs to see it they would succeed and they did. Called the first chick Pepper, the second one Salt or snowy and the other hen had one on its own a month or so later that we called Spice. All of them are speckled but multi-coloured. Next one that goes clucky we'll let have a full clutch of 6 or so and see what happens.
Love the photograph of all of them together. I must look into getting some of the hens that lay blue eggs as I've only ever had blue eggs from the ducks several years ago.
*hugs*
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