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post #2801 of 3297
1/24/13 at 7:32pm
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such a beautiful mix!

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I am a Wife and a Mother. We have 2 dogs, and our always growing flock of chickens(Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, Marans, Japanese Bantams, Silkies, Silver Laced Cochin, Silkie/EE crosses, and a Cream Legbar Roo). We also have Bourbon Red Turkeys!  And now Ducks!!! Soon to be arriving Nigerian Dwarf doelings.

 

 

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I am a Wife and a Mother. We have 2 dogs, and our always growing flock of chickens(Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, Marans, Japanese Bantams, Silkies, Silver Laced Cochin, Silkie/EE crosses, and a Cream Legbar Roo). We also have Bourbon Red Turkeys!  And now Ducks!!! Soon to be arriving Nigerian Dwarf doelings.

 

 

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post #2802 of 3297
1/25/13 at 10:06am
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Gorgeous.  My husband wants a Maran to add to our carton-o-color too.

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post #2803 of 3297
1/26/13 at 9:54am
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That is a pretty group of eggs!  I seriously want some Marans too, but am limited on space.  I'm going to see how many babies in our current batch turn out female, and move from there.

 

I'm blessed/cursed with a husband who will cave and let me have as many chickens as I want, so I have to be responsible :P.

"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
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post #2804 of 3297
1/26/13 at 11:18am
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I'm blessed/cursed with a husband who will cave and let me have as many chickens as I want, so I have to be responsible :P.

My DH doesn't care how many I have as long as I don't ask him to build me more coops. lol.png

Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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post #2805 of 3297
1/26/13 at 11:35am
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My DH doesn't care how many I have as long as I don't ask him to build me more coops. lol.png

LOL same here. I can have all the chickens in the world but if I want a coop its my job. He says Im to bossy when it comes to building and he cant work with me lol. So I build all the houses the way i want and when I need help he does help a little but everything else is up to me.

I am a Wife and a Mother. We have 2 dogs, and our always growing flock of chickens(Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, Marans, Japanese Bantams, Silkies, Silver Laced Cochin, Silkie/EE crosses, and a Cream Legbar Roo). We also have Bourbon Red Turkeys!  And now Ducks!!! Soon to be arriving Nigerian Dwarf doelings.

 

 

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I am a Wife and a Mother. We have 2 dogs, and our always growing flock of chickens(Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, Marans, Japanese Bantams, Silkies, Silver Laced Cochin, Silkie/EE crosses, and a Cream Legbar Roo). We also have Bourbon Red Turkeys!  And now Ducks!!! Soon to be arriving Nigerian Dwarf doelings.

 

 

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post #2806 of 3297
1/29/13 at 3:19pm

So glad ya'll are still doing this!  We got our first chickens in late September, they are 19 weeks today.  We have 5 Ameraucanas (one is a rooster), 5 Light Brahmas and 5 Buff Orpingtons, or Buffets as our children have named them. smile.png

Anyway, after talking with those at the Feed Store, we figured it would be mid to late February before we saw our first egg, as they are larger breeds.  Imagine our surprise when my husband found an egg Sunday evening!  Number 2 was laid today.  Here is a picture of the first one.  It's by one of the Ameraucanas.  The egg today was a little more speckled, does that mean it's from a different bird?  Or does the color of the eggs vary from one to another in a chicken?

 

 

 

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post #2807 of 3297
1/29/13 at 4:04pm
I got my first chickens ever in November. Last week two of them (my black copper maran and my arauracana) were 26 weeks. My arauracana finally left me this bundle of joy. I have a rir and a speckled Sussex at 22 weeks too.
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post #2808 of 3297
1/29/13 at 7:14pm
Wahoo! Congrats on the early eggs! That is great. I would guess the wo eggs are from the same chicken. It seems that the color of any given hen's eggs will vary a little bit day to day. The first few vary more than the later ones as everything gets up and running.
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post #2809 of 3297
1/30/13 at 7:35am

You might also note a change in color on the same egg over a couple of days.  My SLW lays pebbly pink eggs, but after a day or two, they're solid brown.



Here's Inara's fresh egg
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Here they are after a day in the fridge.

 

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I have noticed that the green eggs I get from one of my EEs do the same...  Fresh, they are a kind of greyish green... after a day or two, they are a warmer, more saturate olive green color.

Supporting the arts = paying artists a fair wage. Art Prices should be reflecting an hourly wage (time has value)+mastery(value of skills & experience)+material cost (paint, paper, etc)+taxes (because it's the law)+shipping (because it isn't safe or free). When an artist gives away work, they don't value/appreciate the time invested in their talent/skills or that artwork.  So why would you?

 

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Supporting the arts = paying artists a fair wage. Art Prices should be reflecting an hourly wage (time has value)+mastery(value of skills & experience)+material cost (paint, paper, etc)+taxes (because it's the law)+shipping (because it isn't safe or free). When an artist gives away work, they don't value/appreciate the time invested in their talent/skills or that artwork.  So why would you?

 

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post #2810 of 3297
1/30/13 at 8:04am
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Congrats on the new eggs!

 

And Gifa, I just cant get over how pretty your carton-full of eggs is.

"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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