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Update: All of my hens are laying now. The Cinnamon Queens are laying brown eggs. The Legbars are laying blue eggs. The Americannas are laying green eggs.

I have 14 pullets total. 3 CQ, 4 LB, and 7 Americana. Only 5 are laying as of yet. I think it is 2 CQ, 1 Americana, and 2 LB Laying. Until today, I was only getting 4 eggs each day. Two browns, a white and a green. Today was 5 eggs with the fifth one being light grayish blue. The Americans are...

@UThobbyfarmer , We got a blue egg today. It's the same size and shape as the nearly white eggs that we've been getting.

The legbars are making some nice looking hens.

My legbar crosses are laying a medium sized nearly white egg. Those hens have white earlobes.

Another one has started laying. I don't know which one. The past two days I have gotten a cream colored egg along with a brown egg.

Photo of Legbar compared to Americanna together. Also photo of the egg size from a Cinnamon Queen. Definitely not a large egg.

Only one of the Cinnamon Queens is laying as of yet.

Brown, most likely from one of the Cinnamon Queens.

Got our 1st egg today.

I think 4 of the 7 chicks are cream legbars. They have a crest showing up. The other 3 may be cinnamon queens.

If they're Welsummers that is fine with me.

Welsummers?

I combined an old calf creep feeder and an old chain link dog pen to make a movable chicken pen. It's extremely heavy but I can move it with my side by side. I converted the creep feeder into a nesting box. It has a mobile home axle on the back of it and a hand winch to lift the front.

We bought Rural King's version of Cinnamon Queen day old pullets. Rural King says the are red sex link females from RIR rooster and SLW hens. We'll see? They look exactly like the pullets labeled Welsummer in a separate bin of Rural King. I'm not very confident in the staff of big box stores...

We bought Rural King's version of Cinnamon Queen day old pullets. Rural King says the are red sex link females from RIR rooster and SLW hens. We'll see? They look exactly like the pullets labeled Welsummer in a separate bin of Rural King. I'm not very confident in the staff of big box stores...

I am a cattle producer in southern Alabama. I grew up working in the extended family's commercial broiler business. Which is totally different than raising backyard chickens. I have just recently purchased some chicks to raise for eggs. I have been reading some threads on here, which seem...