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I agree with donreaIt's a female. Looks like maybe some chimeria going on, that could have effected her reproductive ability.
That is absolutely fascinating!! I'm huge sucker for a good documentary, too! Honestly, the more I learn about chickens, the more they sound like feathery little mutants! I'm a X-men fan, so I can totally see my flock as a little mutant band of avian superheroes! Oh geez, I might need to draw some of these (I'm an artist)!
That's a good point - she's definitely not got a normal cycle. In all these months, where everyone else has been laying, Brienne has not. That giant, stand-up little soldier of a comb has been bright red for many, many months, and not a single egg. Now all of a sudden we've gotten 4 eggs from her in the past 8 days (egg, egg, no egg, no egg, no egg, egg, no egg, egg). Time will continue to tell if she evens out, but I would have thought that with such egg-machine breeds (RIR & Plym Rock) she would have started her laying on time, and a bit more regularly. Our other girls are basically like clockwork, with an occasional hiccup, of course.It's a female. Looks like maybe some chimeria going on, that could have effected her reproductive ability.
Lol, no I just couldn't bring myself to do it!Did you ever try the food coloring?
RSL lay brown eggs - the only ones that would definitely NOT lay brown eggs in your list are the leghorns and the Ameraucana if it is a true Ameraucana. The crossings used to bring about EE often result in birds who do not inherit the genetics to produce blue/green eggs and result in birds that lay cream or brown eggs.Lol, no I just couldn't bring myself to do it!Heehee!!
Really, though, at this point I'm sure it's Brienne laying. We've gotten 5 brown eggs almost every day for the past 2 1/2 weeks, and she's the only one who would lay a brown egg. We have 4 Red Sex Links (Red Star sounds so much cooler lol), 5 white Leghorns, an Ameracauna, an Easter Egger, and a Brienne, who is half RIR (mother) and half Plymouth Rock (father). It's official - Brienne is laying eggs! I guess she just had a bit of a late start in maturing... There's still something decidedly odd about her, but I'm content with letting her be her fabulous self, lol!
I'm a little odd, myself, so they tell me!
PS - She did even out a bit - we've gotten almost an egg a day from her, solid, for the past week!
Yes, I know, thank you. I meant that all my hens that lay brown eggs were already laying. That's why I said Brienne would be the only one who could have laid the 5th brown egg I was getting daily. She was the only brown layer we had who hadn't started laying yet.RSL lay brown eggs - the only ones that would definitely NOT lay brown eggs in your list are the leghorns and the Ameraucana if it is a true Ameraucana. The crossings used to bring about EE often result in birds who do not inherit the genetics to produce blue/green eggs and result in birds that lay cream or brown eggs.