We got our first official RIR egg today.
Isn't it a nice round egg? 1.38 oz We brought the hen home as a day-old-chick on 11 April 2012, so that makes her 19 weeks old.
That means we have a handful of Gold Sexlinks laying, two brown leghorns, one Buff Orpington, one Silver Laced Wyandotte, and now one Rhode Island Red who we know for sure have gifted us with eggs.
C'monn EEs! I want blue/green eggs!
Here is the story of our one rogue RIR:
We have a 7' fence around our pasture, but some curious hens still find a way out. Not so hard ... they have a choice of trees to climb for a boost, or, more usually, they hop up on the lip of the side of the coop that is in the pasture and just go up and over the top. Whenever someone flies the coop everyone else clucks super loud (little tattletales), the freerange ducks start quacking, and the freerange turkeys go into full protector mode. Usually the hen is pretty desperate to get back inside the run. We go out, scoop the hen up, and give her a little lecture. The past few days one RIR hen who has been hopping the fence in the morning has found a very camouflaged hiding spot where she has dug a little hole. We wouldn't have even seen here there if the turkeys hadn't pointed us at her. It really appears she wants to nest right there. So today when she hopped the fence we left her alone for a few minutes. When we went back to check, she was wondering around, and had left us this little egg.
We might need to do some wing clipping ...
Isn't it a nice round egg? 1.38 oz We brought the hen home as a day-old-chick on 11 April 2012, so that makes her 19 weeks old.
That means we have a handful of Gold Sexlinks laying, two brown leghorns, one Buff Orpington, one Silver Laced Wyandotte, and now one Rhode Island Red who we know for sure have gifted us with eggs.
C'monn EEs! I want blue/green eggs!
Here is the story of our one rogue RIR:
We have a 7' fence around our pasture, but some curious hens still find a way out. Not so hard ... they have a choice of trees to climb for a boost, or, more usually, they hop up on the lip of the side of the coop that is in the pasture and just go up and over the top. Whenever someone flies the coop everyone else clucks super loud (little tattletales), the freerange ducks start quacking, and the freerange turkeys go into full protector mode. Usually the hen is pretty desperate to get back inside the run. We go out, scoop the hen up, and give her a little lecture. The past few days one RIR hen who has been hopping the fence in the morning has found a very camouflaged hiding spot where she has dug a little hole. We wouldn't have even seen here there if the turkeys hadn't pointed us at her. It really appears she wants to nest right there. So today when she hopped the fence we left her alone for a few minutes. When we went back to check, she was wondering around, and had left us this little egg.
We might need to do some wing clipping ...
