YAY!!! LOL!!!
Lacey my blue copper maran in the picture above laid her first egg today!! She is also the first in the flock to lay an egg so my next question is how long do I leave it in the nesting box? or should I take it out right away??
Yes, That is my Blue Copper Maran. So that light pink spot is her ear lobe? I will defiantly keep checking to see when it gets bright red. Is that the same for all of the pullets or just the Marans? I'll have to go look at my other pullets to see how they are coming along to then.
I'm sitting out side now and most of my girls (usually perched at the top of the coope are inside the hen house) the past few days they have been searching around the yard continuously. So I made sure the hen house was accessible, added straw and placed golf balls in each box, and physically...
I have 9 hens... French cooper marans (1 blue, 1 wheaton, 1 splash, 2 black) & 2 lemon cuckoo orphingtons all about 22 weeks old. 1golden sexlink ( more of a reddish color though) and last but not least an item number literally... was told she is a Plymouth rock mutt! (Really pretty though) &...