Chicken Math. Or "The story of how I didn't want chickens and got hooked"

[azurbanclucker]

Those eggs! Who lays those?

Either the Lavender Ameraucauna or one of the EE's. Not sure yet. I have 5 layers in the blue/green, and I get 3 that are fairly greenish and 2 that are more blue.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Wow! I love how you have so many different breeds! It seems like you’re always adding more, have you had an easy time integrating new girls to your existing flock? This is the one thing holding me back from getting more.

Don't know if iv'e been lucky or just hit on the right formula, but we do very well integrating birds. I put them in a grow-out coop which is next to where I feed, and let them sort of hang out through the fence for 4-6 weeks before I open the doors. Seems to be working so far. With larger birds, I just give them a few days to acclimate, then let them figure it out.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Picking up the egg discussion from the other day, here's the Lavender Ameraucauna and one of my 2 Svart Hona hens.

Some of our eggs. The light blue one is from the Lavender above. The green is from my Black Isbar. The whites are from one of my Bresse and one of the Svarts. The pointed one in the center is from the Svart. The EE's all lay in a blue/green between the two here.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Move-out day for the Orloffs. The others all raised such a fuss when I separated them that I just said the heck with it and moved everyone out. It's warm enough that they should be OK as long as they go up in the nesting box at night.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I have O.C.D.
Organizing Cackle-fruit Disorder.

 

[CCUK]

I have O.C.D.
Organizing Cackle-fruit Disorder.



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Lovely eggs from lovely hens! They are like a colour chart!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Had a rare afternoon free, and spent it parked on the back porch with my wife watching the ebb and flow of activity. Here's a few shots of some of the clucks from today.

1. Frizzle!

2-5, Cluck Norris, Blue American Bresse roo.

6. Ole' (Olay), GLW

7. Asteria, Svart Hona

8. A few of the girls cluckin' and shufflin'

 

[CCUK]

Beautiful birds! Chuck norris....love it!!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Beautiful birds! Chuck norris....love it!!

He earned it when we had a coyote attack just before Thanksgiving. He was out there fighting with the bugger when I got outside. before that he didn't have a name.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Merry is broody and sitting fertilized eggs. Her flockmates clearly don't seem to care.