Countdown to the first egg. Buckle up, it could be awhile....

[TwoCrows]

Happy 20 weeks to my pullets!!!!

I was hoping we could celebrate with an egg but it’s not to be. We are getting down to the end of the flock. There were a couple nest boxes that were disturbed which is new. I have wooden eggs in there with pine shavings and someone was investigating. I’ll take that as a good sign!
Profile 13/16 - our last Olive Egger Esmeralda
My husband named this one. She has the fanciest name of all the pullets
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she has a muff like her sister Cheeks but less barring like her sister Vulture. She almost looks blue sometimes, it’s very cool
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She’s another one of my “middle child” pullets. Not a bully, doesn’t get bullied. Stays out of the way, kind of hangs back but is relatively friendly towards me.
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I thought they were getting close to POL because her small comb and eyes were turning red, but I noticed the last couple days the comb is growing a lot! Like up!
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her comb is strange, not sure how to categorize it. The top of her head even looks brownish-red in these pictures.
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To me it looks like two different chickens mashed together! Her head looks like a separate chicken from her body!
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I just know Esmeralda is going to give me the most gorgeous shade of olive eggs (I’m already deep in my wishful thinking. Let a girl dream!)
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See you on the morrow!

She is pretty! Very interesting hen. She does look like two different birds meshed together.

 

[RevlisRemmah]

I went out early today, no eggs yet but it’s early right? Before noon. They still have 7ish hours to turn my day around!
Profile 14/16- our Third Light Brahma pullet

Magenta!

She’s a floofy friend! She’s the same size as her sister Columbia, about half the size of Big Momma and has the least red comb of the 3.

I really feel like I don’t know her that well. I always read that Brahmas were soooooo friendly and sooooo nice and sooooo lovey. Mine just aren’t. They don’t necessarily run away from me but she doesn’t come up to greet me either.
Here she is showing off pretending she’s in the circus.

I like my brahmas. I like their feathered feet and I like that they are big and fluffy.

Magenta has been teasing me, she lays in the far corner of the run - as far away from the coop as she can be. And just lays there. And I think SHES PROBABLY LAYING AN EGG and she never does. I trudge over there everyday just to make sure. Just a bunch of poop in the matted grass!

I’ve noticed she uses the perches in the run the most of all the girls, she probably doesn’t like her pretty boot feathers getting all cold on the dewy ground. I wonder if I will have to trim those feathers when the snow comes. She’s in the background in the next picture, behind Columbia her LB sister.

isn’t she pretty? Here is her sister Columbia to compare body shape - Columbia is much sportier I think

And here is Magenta again -

did anyone get the Rocky Horror Picture Show Reference? Magenta and Columbia? Get it??
I really don’t think my Brahmas will lay soon but I’m HOPING they will lay through the winter- which is fast approaching. Daylight savings is at the end of the month and if no one is laying by then I’ll relent and just hope for springtime eggs from the rest.

If there is an update before the end of the day I’ll let you know! Otherwise stay tuned for Profile 15 tomorrow! Only two birds left to introduce!

 

[DaisyG2317]

She earned her name by being twice as big as all the other pullets (including Columbia and Magenta, her other LB sisters)

Yay another Rocky Horror fan!!!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

When we're they all hatched again? My June 1 bunch I expect eggs to begin somewhere between the end of November to January. I've never had one not start up.

 

[RevlisRemmah]

When we're they all hatched again? My June 1 bunch I expect eggs to begin somewhere between the end of November to January. I've never had one not start up.

They are all June 1 hatches. So there’s hope?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They are all June 1 hatches. So there’s hope?

Yours are looking more mature than mine. Mine burn all their energy running amok around the yard. I'm betting you will see eggs before I do.

 

[RevlisRemmah]

Just locked up the chooks.

no eggs

 

[RevlisRemmah]

It rained and stormed pretty heavily last night. My two kids were scared and in my bed at 2AM. I was hopeful the thunder and lightning would scare the eggs out of my pretty pullets but NO DICE.

I have to be honest, I went through all my favorite chickens first. I don’t really know much about these last two. They blend into the group. They aren’t mean, not cuddly, not treat hoarders, not adventurous, not at the bottom of the pecking order, not at the top of the pecking order, not a bully, not bullied, not not not. Just not a whole lot of things. Just as a caveat in case these profiles seem lame and boring, it’s because they are, because I don’t really know these chickens.

Profile 15/16 - Tabasco. The last Welsummer that I’m not sure is actually Tabasco since I can’t tell the triplets apart.

I wasn’t sure about getting Welsummers. They are flighty and I was worried they wouldn’t be interesting to look at but they really are pretty birds.

they have kind of golden collars like the mane of a lion. I tried to take pictures with multiple Wellies so you can see how similar they look

They have the biggest waddles and combs besides the BSL pullets. Which surprises me because I thought they were late layers

here is Tabasco by a BSL

I am very interested to see the eggs! I hope they are dark and spotted! I guess even if they were the most ordinary shade of white I would be ecstatic. At least it would be an egg. An unremarkable white Welsummer egg.

so that’s about it! Bye bye Tabasco (or Chalula or Sriracha....)

 

[TwoCrows]

I was hopeful the thunder and lightning would scare the eggs out of my pretty pullets but NO DICE.

Too funny!

Your photos are just lovely as usual.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I love welsummer. They are nice quiet pretty birds.