CrazyCrttr75
Free Ranging
I haven't had a chance to catch up from the past few days so am a bit behind but I will when I have a better chance to do so. I just couldn't wait to tell y'all tho... Lookie at what we got today!
A sweet little pullet egg!
And I was surprised to see the first egg come from Jasmine, my BCM. She is the one that we had to baby because she had the prolapsed vent issues when she was a born. My hubby went out there and checked her vent to make sure everything looked ok and she is good. A few others are squatting so maybe more will be along before too much longer. What is a weird coincidence is the fact that every single batch of my chickens have had a first time layer lay their egg at 18 weeks old. Every single time. And to the day even! I thought that was a couple weeks early? 
Not for my chickens I guess. Now that is not to say that they still don't have to work out any kinks in their laying system to become laying regularly. And Jasmine and all of the others will be 18 weeks old tomorrow. I can't wait until I get that first blue/green egg! 
Also, since it's been a bit. The ducklings are growing like crazy! They will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. They have gotten so big and they LOVE their pool. I still have to remove Noah from the area for them to be out tho. And now Xena has started chasing them and running them off of wherever they happen to be. I'm not sure why. So we are going tweak some things and fence off a section to where we can let them out but Noah and Xena can't get to them, yet they can all be in the same "territory". That way we don't have to keep putting Noah, and sometimes Xena, over the fence with the chickens. Because Noah can be a butthead and chase/harass the chickens which is not good either. We're working it all out.
A sweet little pullet egg!
And I was surprised to see the first egg come from Jasmine, my BCM. She is the one that we had to baby because she had the prolapsed vent issues when she was a born. My hubby went out there and checked her vent to make sure everything looked ok and she is good. A few others are squatting so maybe more will be along before too much longer. What is a weird coincidence is the fact that every single batch of my chickens have had a first time layer lay their egg at 18 weeks old. Every single time. And to the day even! I thought that was a couple weeks early? Not for my chickens I guess. Now that is not to say that they still don't have to work out any kinks in their laying system to become laying regularly. And Jasmine and all of the others will be 18 weeks old tomorrow. I can't wait until I get that first blue/green egg! Also, since it's been a bit. The ducklings are growing like crazy! They will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. They have gotten so big and they LOVE their pool. I still have to remove Noah from the area for them to be out tho. And now Xena has started chasing them and running them off of wherever they happen to be. I'm not sure why. So we are going tweak some things and fence off a section to where we can let them out but Noah and Xena can't get to them, yet they can all be in the same "territory". That way we don't have to keep putting Noah, and sometimes Xena, over the fence with the chickens. Because Noah can be a butthead and chase/harass the chickens which is not good either. We're working it all out.
They'll be in my thoughts. How is he doing with this news?
Words just can’t do justice to what I am feeling in my heart so forgive the simplicity. I will keep y’all in my prayers. 
