So exciting! While my other 3 hens have been laying for a while now, our Ameraucana(23 weeks old) has finally laid her first egg today! Here's my 6 year old daughter getting it for the first time. We now have 3.5 dozen eggs already !
I'm hoping you all could help me figure out what gender my second round of chicks are. We currently have 2 Ameraucanas(1 is a rooster and they are 23 weeks old), 2 Production Red hens(24 weeks old) & 1 Black Australorp(24 weeks old). All but the Ameraucana are laying. We decided after our...
Good to know! She laid her second egg this morning and it is already a little bigger than yesterdays! I'm sure I'm not the only one that's giddy every time she sings the egg song and I go gather it, right?! Ha. I don't think it will ever get old collecting eggs.
So exciting!!! Seems like it took forever. 3 of my 4 girls are 21 weeks old today and I knew it was going to happen sometime this week. This little girl(Blanche - Production Red) decided today was the day. I heard her do the egg song, so I went and checked and sure enough found this small egg. I...
Hello! I'm new at this and have had my 2 production reds and 2 black australorps for 11 weeks(we got them all when they were a day old) and 2 EEs for 10 weeks. We purchased all for egg laying only. I noticed weeks ago that one of my australorps has a bigger comb than the other and has wattles...