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I do think seeing the two leghorns side by side make them look more startling - that’s why I figured I would post to ask advice for anyone more experienced with this kind of thing :) As for the other bird in the photo, you’re right she has kind of a pale comb too. Hers is so much smaller and...

We got our first 5 hens last May. Last fall they had just started laying so they haven’t ever been through a molt until this year. I’ve read online that it can take a longer time for “spring chickens” to begin laying again after their very first molt - at this point it’s going on 3 months and...

So I haven’t gotten a light tan egg like the one on the left since that original photo I’ve posted. I’m now getting too brown speckled eggs so even further from guessing who is who. I haven’t caught anyone in the act yet and laying has been more sparse since it’s been so cold. One of the eggs...

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Hi ya’ll! I am new here to the site and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Shaelyn. I live in a small town in Ohio. We got our first backyard chickens last spring. We raised a small group of broiler chickens first. And then got 5 egg layer chicks in May. We have 2 brown leghorns, an...

So I currently have a Welsummer and a Cuckoo Maran (both from a hatchery) who recently have started laying. From what I have read both should lay dark brown eggs. According to the hatchery I got them from “Marans lay the darkest eggs of any breed“ and Welsummer are know for “the production of...