I'm in Southwest Orlando, basically at Apopka-Vineland Rd and Old Winter Garden Rd, so just a hop and a skip from you, FloridaGirl.
Here's some pics from the rogues' gallery:
Cinnamon (Gold Star / Red Sex-Link) on the left is an egg laying machine who gives me a large, thick-shelled brown...
Due to our unplanned relocation, my three pet ladies need a new home. They are a Gold Star, a Barred Rock and a Black Australorp. Great girls, but I can't take them with me back to Canada!
At first, I thought Chocolate, a (suspected) Black Australorp might be getting broody, but her behavior doesn't seem to match.
She's my lowest producer, laying around 4 a week. Her coop mate Pepper, BR, lays 5-6 a week and her other buddy Cinnamon, Red Comet, lays 7/week, often with a double...
I know that the "A Really Big Egg" is closed,
But I've got to lobby for Cinnamon's production this morning...
It weighs 97g (3.42 oz)
That's 37% over the jumbo size threshold.
(At least I get to give her accolades on a front page forum!)
Cinnamon:
(BA) Chocolate's very first egg at 21.5 wks is on the right. I was starting to call her Choco-LATE cuz it's been 2 weeks since her Red Star "sister " of the same age dropped her first egg. The egg on the left is from Cinnamon today for comparison. There was one heck of drawn out egg song from...