fuzzi's Chicken Journal

[fuzzi]

The food coloring arrived this afternoon.

After dark I recruited my brother to help me mark the Sussex' vents. I took them off the roost, one at a time, and as he held them upside down I applied a few drops of different colors in their vents so I can identify their eggs.

Rahab: violet

Martha: blue

Hannah: green

I was wearing my headlamp on the red light but had to switch over to white to confirm which hen was receiving which color. As I returned each hen to the roost I saw Samuel glaring, staring at me, and he didn't look sleepy. I believe he would have attacked me if it weren't dark.

I kept an eye on him as I removed and returned each hen.

 

[fuzzi]

I just walked by someone's desk and saw this:
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I WANT! I WANT! I WANT!

I left a note with my email address next to the chicks. The student responded by email, said she and her boyfriend crochet them, they're $6 each.

I sent her photos of Hannah and one of the Dominiques, asked her if she could make something similar. I was thinking she could use variegated yarn, perhaps?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Variegated yard yarn would look nice!

Good luck on your egg I.d.'s!

edited to correct auto correct, the blasted thing

 

[fuzzi]

Variegated yard yarn would look nice!

Good luck on your egg I.d.'s!

edited to correct auto correct, the blasted thing

Thank you.

Auto Co-wreck did it to me as well.

I'm confused, I got three eggs. Martha was sitting in a box for a couple hours, and still no sign of colors...

 

[fuzzi]

Harvested my carrots:

Gave the greens and the weeds to the flock:

Happy chicks!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Lovely eggs!
Those carrots look yummy!

Hmmm...not sure why the color is not transferring to eggs. Maybe those 3 are not from the girls you 'marked'?

 

[fuzzi]

I'm on a stake out...

Hannah, Martha, Naomi (L-R)

I have a pencil in the coop in case I get lucky.

Naomi is very restless in the box.

 

[fuzzi]

I gathered some pillbugs, brought them in for the girls.

Martha left her box without laying...


Rahab is very noisy.

 

[fuzzi]

Naomi's egg

 

[fuzzi]

Hannah's egg (see the green?)

Unfortunately she was startled, bolted out of the nesting box, and apparently cracked her egg.

Two other eggs have no indication of color. Maybe I need to redo the food coloring and use more this time?

Top right is Hannah's.