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[Laurieks]

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(need an ice cream smilie!)

 

[Laurieks]

Mysterious package on the porch when we got home today...

It's here! The first one into the US! DH thinks it's for slinging eggs like in Tron Legacy....

 

[wolftracks]

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(need an ice cream smilie!)

 

[jeremy]

UGH! I just showed up for work 2 hours early.

 

[PetRock]

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That's better than being 2 hrs late! I walked out the door to go to work a couple of days ago with my poop shoe Crocs on. At least I caught myself as I started the car and ran back in to change. I have made it all the way to work before with them on. I had to call my oldest daughter and beg her to bring me a new pair of shoes. Not only are they my poop shoes but they are also bright teal blue!

 

[PetRock]

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Thank you for posting the egg pic, Jeremy! I think that I have two females out of the three chicks. I sure hope that they lay darker olive eggs! Do you have your three up for sale on Craig's List?

 

[jeremy]

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Yes, unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure I have 2 cockerels and 1 pullet... but the pullet has a single comb which means she more than likely won't lay an olive colored egg but rather a brown egg. Granted it would probably be a lovely darker colored brown egg but I was hoping for olive eggs. The blue egg gene is closely associated with the pea comb, so birds with the pea comb should have both the blue egg and the dark brown egg gene, equaling a olive egg. My little girl though has a single. So, I'm a litle bummed.

The two that I think are boys are much taller, have feathered in much much slower and already have wide pink combs.

I figured someone here in the Bay Area might want them for a project, or layers or ?

ETA: I do have more OE eggs under my broody and in the incubator, all set to hatch next week, so there may still be a chance for some pretty green eggs in my basket this year!

 

[PetRock]

That's interesting about the combs. We have one of each types of combs on the two that I think are females. We'll probably keep both if they are girls and it will be interesting to see what color of eggs that they lay. Our little roo is way behind on feathering but stands tall and is always getting into it with Lemon Drop and our silver AM cockeral. This is our first time with little males and we are enjoying them while we have them. DH and I finished enclosing a section under the coop this past weekend so the babies have a safe place to play during the day. It's our new chicken TV channel!

 

[PetRock]

Our Black Australorp has decided to go broody this week. This is day 5 of her sitting in the nest box all day and night except for when we push her out to eat and drink. She also walks around making the cutest clucking noises. It seems like her broodiness started shortly after we began taking our little chicks out for some outside play time. I wonder if their little peeps encouraged her broodiness. Anyway, what is the best way to break her of this? I would love to put some eggs under her and I've heard that BA are good mamas. I'm just not sure if I need to add something else to my chicken plate right now. The area that we just enclosed under the coop would be perfect for a mama and chicks but our current babies will be using it for the next 8-10 weeks.

 

[wolftracks]

Cheryl do you think my new girls should be laying pure eggs by now?

I have a few in the bator that I managed to no drop or that they managed to not trample. They weren't laying in the box at first, but have it down now.

Also something else. I collected eggs on Monday and had the usual 2 eggs. Yesterday I found one early in the morning and then in the afternoon there were two eggs again. I haven't had a bird lay two in a day that I know of since my Dom hen. She'd do that like once a month. Two eggs and would lay like 10-12 days straight and one day off. Trying to remember what treat I gave that day, cause they'll get double!