Bay Area BYCers!

[jeremy]

Anna, congrats on the great egg haul... we're only getting 3 or 4 eggs daily from our 40+ birds...

This girl is one that is still holding out on us, I'm not so patiently waiting on a big white egg from her!

I miss walking into the coop and finding this in the nesting boxes. I really hate the short days of Winter.

 

[sewandgrow]

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Nice blue eggs Jeremy. Who is giving you those?
Did you get my pictures of the Gumpsgirl Orpington????

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Pretty eggs, everyone!

I'm getting 4 eggs a day from 10 birds (really, only 9, since Tatertot is retired.) But, 5 of those birds are just getting started, so lots of tiny eggs. Sometimes I have to go searching for them in the coop. The babies are still learning.

My EE is a funny bird. Sometimes her eggs are olive, sometimes they are gray, sometimes they are blue. Go figure.

 

[sewandgrow]

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I thought once a pullet started laying her ggs were always pretty much the same, just varying degrees of the same color???? Luck you..............

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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I thought once a pullet started laying her ggs were always pretty much the same, just varying degrees of the same color???? Luck you..............

I'll have to post a pic later. I think it may have to do with whether the egg is at the beginning of the clutch or at the end. The early eggs are greener. The later eggs are bluer.

 

[sewandgrow]

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I thought once a pullet started laying her ggs were always pretty much the same, just varying degrees of the same color???? Luck you..............

I'll have to post a pic later. I think it may have to do with whether the egg is at the beginning of the clutch or at the end. The early eggs are greener. The later eggs are bluer.

I got rid of all my EE but thr B/B/S Ameraucanas lay green, the B/W Ameraucanas lay blue, the Black Australorps are almost pink, the Marans are dark brown & then a variety of other breeds lay varying degrees of beige & brown and the Black Minorca & Blue Andalusians lay white. I think I covered the colors the hard way......LOL

 

[Country Chick at Heart]

Good Morning Everyone!

Love the egg pictures! The colors are so beautiful! I'm getting 3 large eggs a day from the big girls (2 Buff Orps and 1 BA), and 1 Silkie egg every other day...she just starting laying. My other Silkie is still Broody! Although she will get out and free range for awhile before she hits the nest again....silly bird. But they are all light brown to medium brown....pretty and tastey, but boring color wise!!

And I think the chicken gods are trying to test my will with my first solo chicken raising experience!. So, after having 4 out of 9 chicks turn out to be roos, my little Silkie getting beatin' up and my other Silkie turning Broody, me thinks I heard an attempted crow this morning! I think one of the big hens is trying to crow!!! I know it is possible....can it be stopped? Are they missing something? Am I not spending enough time with them? Anyone have experience with THIS one? Oiy!

As always, your advice and experience is always soooo appreciated!

 

[ronott1]

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Nice Eggs!

I have 8 of what the breeder calls Americaunas and 4 Marans eggs in my incubator--can't wait for them to hatch.

Yesterday I got 8 eggs from my 11 chickens. I give them three hours of light each morning. There is an old wives tail about letting the chickens rest in the winter but:

Chickens are descendant from Jungle fowl and come form a place with year round light
Do chickens in Canada need to rest more than chickens in Chile?
If you don't give them light, chickens in Canada will lay eggs for four months and will rest for eight months.
If you raise breeds that lay in the winter, will they be different from ones you give light to?
Hens are born with 2000 Ovum. If they lay 300 eggs a year, they will have enough eggs for 6.7 years
Chickens will not usually run out of eggs before they die or stop laying eggs due to age
Chicken feed is very expensive--Eggs and chicks for sale helps pay for feed
Chickens are not native to our area--giving them light in the winter re creates the conditions of their native land.

Makes you think...

 

[wolftracks]

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Nice Eggs!

I have 8 of what the breeder calls Americaunas and 4 Marans eggs in my incubator--can't wait for them to hatch.

Yesterday I got 8 eggs from my 11 chickens. I give them three hours of light each morning. There is an old wives tail about letting the chickens rest in the winter but:

Chickens are descendant from Jungle fowl and come form a place with year round light
Do chickens in Canada need to rest more than chickens in Chile?
If you don't give them light, chickens in Canada will lay eggs for four months and will rest for eight months.
If you raise breeds that lay in the winter, will they be different from ones you give light to?
Hens are born with 2000 Ovum. If they lay 300 eggs a year, they will have enough eggs for 6.7 years
Chickens will not usually run out of eggs before they die or stop laying eggs due to age
Chicken feed is very expensive--Eggs and chicks for sale helps pay for feed
Chickens are not native to our area--giving them light in the winter re creates the conditions of their native land.

Makes you think...

Makes sense!

 

[PetRock]

Does anyone know which hatchery Concord Feed gets their chicks from? I am going to take pics of our 3 Speckled Sussex girls who are 30 weeks old and almost at POL to post for critique on the Speckled Sussex thread. I want to be able to tell them which hatchery they are from.