If I see him again I will ask as I don't know offhand. I suspect that it is some hard to find rare line or maybe even one of his own breeding as he has a menagerie of exquisitely beautiful exotic birds, plants and animals hidden expertly behind a simple home. If you didn't know what was back...
She laid one last year that was 3.4 oz and it was a double yolk. This one most likely is as well. I just can't imagine how she produces an egg that size in one day and then comes back the next day with another X-L egg.
Today we had all 9 of our hens lay an egg for the first time. I was trying to figure out which hen was laying which egg but until today I still had two that I wasn’t sure of. Mystery solved. We have a variety pack that’s for sure. The yellow lines are from our older hens the pink lines are from...
The little brown chick in the third photo down of the three little chicks has begun laying also. We just found 7 of her eggs stashed up in our barn. She started at 132 days. Yikes! (The middle chick is a rooster)
My images are not appearing in the post. Instead I see a click-able little blue square. This square appears no matter if I use the upload from my computer option, Photobucket or if I link to the images on my BYC account. This just started as all of my previous posts have displayed the images...
It seems that Elkie and her chicks are all early layers. Elkie laid her first egg at 144 days, the white chick at 135 days and her brown chick at 131 days.
On April 1, 2012 we hatched seven eggs in our home made incubator. Three eggs were from our little bantam Elkie and our EE rooster Louie. 131 days later (18 weeks) the little brown bantam has started to lay eggs. She had hid them up in the hay loft of our barn all the way into the corner where...