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[fancbrd4me02]

Flower, just keep your fingers crossed that I have good hatches!

I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch. lol
I'll let you know how this weeks hatch goes.

 

[neverbdone]

Hey there Mojave and Inyokern ! It's great to find out I have BYCer neighbors.

I've been a BYCer for years and I'm in Beautiful Uptown Bodfish!

OK, for those who don't have a clue where Bodfish is its by Lake Isabella. I'll PM you two and see if we might be able to do something sometime.

 

[baustin]

Hey there I know where Bodfishs. We looked at property there before we moved here. Lovely place. Still wish we'd have waitied until we found what we wanted but our house sold too fast and we had to get out.

 

[baustin]

I live in the Indian Wells Valley and didn't think there was anyone else near to me but the other day I got two PM''s from gals that live very close. One lives in the next town and the other about an hour away. It's fun to chat with people close by but anyone else that wants to chat I would welcome.

 

[Carlyle]

Whoa - check this out.

My maniac chickens from Vista County Feed (ones I have bragged about before) normally lay medium brown eggs - same color as small end below. Last two times, one of them has been mottled like this. Any idea what is going on.

 

[flower]

Before I put my eggs in the carton I wash them off with scrubbie with soap under warm water since I sometimes find mud and other stuff (ka ka) on them. I wonder if that stuff will wash off. Just curios because once or twice I found some grey stuff on the shell although it did not have a pattern to it like the stuff in the pic.

 

[Carlyle]

Yeah, I forgot to mention. At first I thought it was little spots lacking the brown pigment. But I discovered that while rinsing doesn't help (have not tried a scrubbing pad), that I can scrape the white off and reveal the normal brown pigment. It is as if somebody "misted" it with white paint.

 

[baustin]

I don't know what causes it either but I have a hen that lays eggs like that all the time. It doesn't seem to hurt the egg any, but it doesn't wash off. Maybe it has something to do with pigment. If you find out I'd like to know.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

Carlyle, what kind of chickens have you got that are laying that egg? BTW, I shop at Vista Country Feed. I have asked them to order me some Speckled Sussex and Blue Andalusians.

 

[Carlyle]

I posted pictures of them earlier in the thread - so you can guess for yourself. Meaning, I don't really know. They are notionally RIR, but seem to be mixed with something else. Leghorn? In any case, they are maniac layers. I religiously get 3 eggs every day from the 4 of them. For the last two days of really bad weather, I've gotten 4 each day! All 8 of these are beautiful - no speckles. Before that, for 2 days, I got the usual 3, but 1 was speckled each day.