Countdown To Eggs! For June hatches 😊

[Auntiejessi3]

My June BCM hen. Wonder why she’s the favorite?

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This is the chick pictured in my avatar. June HAL chicks, Blue laced red Wyandotte roo and Olive egger (Legbar/Welsummer) hen. She threw me for awhile with her dark shoulder but she is 100% pullet. She is so pretty. I wish she was friendlier.


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A few group shots. All chicks from June or July.
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Very pretty birds! My BLRW is stuck up too, I figure there's gotta be a snob in every group

 

[Shevraeth]

My brown leghorn hit 16 weeks today and her (honestly, it's pretty reddish) comb has definitely gotten bigger over the past week, but with how big leghorn combs get in general, I think she still has a few weeks to go. I feel it in my gut that she'll be laying by the end of the month though. My white leghorn hit 14 weeks today and her comb is still very uncolored and tiny, so there's a big difference in how the combs look between my two leghorns and I'm thinking the white one will start laying at an older age than the brown will.

 

[Shevraeth]

Got a picture of the girls this morning!

Mary, 16wks

Marshmallow, 14wks

Big difference! Haha

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Got a picture of the girls this morning!

Mary, 16wks
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Marshmallow, 14wks
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Big difference! Haha

I see exactly what you mean about their combs. I really wanted Leghorns this year. Never happened but they’re on my shortlist of next year’s chicks.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

@Shevraeth Also what exceptional chicken photography skills you have! I’m totally jealous. Even my friendly girls hit the road as soon as I switch my phone to camera mode.

 

[Shevraeth]

I see exactly what you mean about their combs. I really wanted Leghorns this year. Never happened but they’re on my shortlist of next year’s chicks.

I found out that Sandhill Preservation has some fun leghorn colors, and I'm eyeballing getting a mille fleur leghorn next year if they open that color up for sales. I love that color palette

https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/chickens

 

[Shevraeth]

@Shevraeth Also what exceptional chicken photography skills you have! I’m totally jealous. Even my friendly girls hit the road as soon as I switch my phone to camera mode.

Oh, for every one of those there's like five of these hahaha

 

[Iluveggers]

Here’s my Welsummer, approaching 16 weeks. She has the most waddle & comb color, even though I have a few birds a few weeks older!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

This is what my Welsummer looked like 2 days before her first egg at 20 weeks, just for reference

 

[Iluveggers]

This is what my Welsummer looked like 2 days before her first egg at 20 weeks, just for reference
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That would put her right at the beginning of Nov if she lays at 20 weeks! Yours is very pretty!