Flossie laid her first egg!!

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My Americauna, Flossie Mae, just laid her very first egg and it's a beautiful blue! She was the last hold-out of my older girls. Her sister, Ezell, also and Americauna, lays green eggs. I'm SO EXCITED! I had a feeling Flossie would lay blue and Ezell green.

By the way, they are named for my grandmother and her sister. I named my Rhode Island Red after my grandmother's other sister, Lula Belle. What can I say, my great-grandparents were hicks, literally. That was my grandmother's maiden name. Nana hated her name but still wondered why no one named any of their children after her. That's why I named my favorite hens after her and her sisters.

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Congratulations...I thought about naming my chickens after my relatives too! (-:
How old where your Ameraucana's when they first laid?
I've got Easter Eggers and was wondering when I should start looking. They are almost 17 weeks old now!
 
My birds are almost 6 months. EE chickens tend to mature later than other breeds. Well, that's what my friend and veteran poultry farmer says. Mine certainly laid later than my Buff Orpingtons and RIR.

I have a website, www.n4dbi.com. I'll be posting a pic of the blue egg later today.
 
lucky! my americauna (oops scratch that) EE is 15 weeks old, maybe younger (you just can't trust those feed stores
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) the other day i looked at her earlobes, and they're WHITE! meaning shes just going to lay a PLAIN 'OL WHITE EGG! i am so jealous! can't wait to see the egg!
 
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Hmmm, you can tell the color by the earlobes? That's interesting; I never knew it.

I got our first Ameracauna egg today.
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yeah, well kinda - if the earlobes are white they are white egg layers, if not they're everything else.
 

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