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4/18/12 at 7:42pm

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Look at the egg I foung today! This was laid by a Golden Comet. Ouch!!!

I have a small flock of Standard Partridge Cochin rooster, Light Sussex roo, Austra White, Gold Laced Wyandotte, speckeled sussex, mystery breed and Welsummer. A patient husband, 11 year old daughter who is thrilled with my new hobby, a dog, 3 cats and 4 bee hives.

I am looking for Buff or Laced Brahma, Light Sussex, Buff Sussex pullets/hens.

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4/18/12 at 11:24pm

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May well be a double yolk. Awesome.

23, westerly winds.

"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." - Amelia Earhart

4 years!!! So awesome... (I am keeping this account alive in OPS just for that. lol.)

23, westerly winds.

"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." - Amelia Earhart

4 years!!! So awesome... (I am keeping this account alive in OPS just for that. lol.)

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4/20/12 at 2:02am

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either a double or triple yolk or an egg within an egg

1 tolerant mother, 2 red sexlinks ,1 isa brown, 1 australorp, 1 light/speckled sussex,one baby minorca mix, one white mystery chick, one maybe production red chick, a confused male pekin duck and one mystery hen which is genetically predisposed to lay double yolkers