Here's the egg I found in the nest today after the americana was seen in the nest. It could be another hen like you said though. I saw her in the nest this morning and I found the egg this evening.
Last year we got 4 new hens from the local feed store, one being an Americana. I knew they were the mutt easter egger bird and not the true Americauna, but I took the gamble and got her with the hopes of having the blue green eggs that they are known for. She layed 2 eggs this color and then...
Well here he is all grown up... He's a nice one. He hasn't started crowing yet. He's very timid. You can hardly get next to him.
I tried putting him and the black hen (that he came with) in the same enclosure as our established group. He just hides and the dominant hen just goes all nutty with...
Does that mean she'd lay eggs of varying colors.. ie a brown one one day, a blue one the next? Or just one color so we'll just have to wait and see?
We currently have one Ameraucana, (blue eggs) and 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Black sex links, and two Buff orpingtons, (all varying shades of brown...
Hey guys, here is the other chick that we received from my daughter's class.
Any ideas on this one? Same age... hatched on May 2nd...
Black with some nice green/purple/blue iridescence.
Thanks!
My daughter's Kindergarten class got to watch chicks hatching at the end of their school year last year. When they had hatched they needed homes. My daughter volunteered us to take two chicks and this is one of them. :)
This chicken has some very small red marks ( one or two feathers) on...