How is your flock today?

[Parront]

Enjoy it, because I won't be playing with the eggs color genetics this year with the Naked Neck's.

I may just hatch some of those big green eggs and see how they turn out. The NN from the Red Ranger x Dorking does not lay green eggs, but the eggs are large and a nice creamy tan. I am sure her boys will be better eating than the pure bred Barred Hollands I have been eating!

 

[Sally PB]

No eggs today. So maybe that means 3 eggs tomorrow!

 

[416bigbore]

No eggs today. So maybe that means 3 eggs tomorrow!

Well that stinks those little Turkeys! Add ten more hens and I am guessing you won't have a no egg day again! LOL

I have noticed with our four Isa Brown girls that their is two of them that will take turns and not lay their one egg for the day. Most days we will just get three chicken eggs from the four of them, not including duck eggs.

I had thought maybe it was just one of them who was defective and not laying, so I banded their legs with different color small zip ties to figure out it was two of them and not just the one as I had thought. The girls are all so close in color and very hard to tell apart, luckily I had different colored small zip ties on hand other then just black. LOL

 

[Sally PB]

Three eggs before 10 am today! That means most likely I'll get three eggs tomorrow too. But then probably a zero egg day on Tuesday.

But I'll take it. 3-3-0 is the same as 2-2-2 for egg count.

 

[BlueBaby]

Three eggs before 10 am today! That means most likely I'll get three eggs tomorrow too. But then probably a zero egg day on Tuesday.

But I'll take it. 3-3-0 is the same as 2-2-2 for egg count.

Some breed's are like that. They will lay for a couple of day's in a row, and then take day. Then you have other's that will lay one every other day.

 

[416bigbore]

So how is everyone and their Flock this fine day?

 

[Sally PB]

So far, so good! Two cups of coffee down the hatch, and waiting for hubby to wake up and make breakfast. (Weekend tradition.)

The usual noise from my cockerel. Two weeks from tomorrow, the chickens are all promoted to hens and rooster. So much easier to type than pullets and cockerel.

 

[416bigbore]

@Sally PB Sweet on the weekend breakfast as long as it isn't a bowl of cheerios ! We have a tradition around our place similar. It's called I do all the cooking! If I didn't know any better I had thought I was eating over at Grandmothers place. She was an amazing cook and very glad to this day I paid attention and asked lots of questions as to the different stuff she cooked. Now a days people have no clue as to what good home cooking is all about!

That is awesome news! We are very close to our one Yr. Ann. also and will have to look on last years Cal. to make sure.

What is the usual noise from your Cockerel, Just crowing? Ours, Chewy makes all kinds of different noises.

 

[Sally PB]

Mostly he crows. Sometimes some other noises, but mostly the crowing. The pullets are very quiet, making a noise halfway between "coo" and "who."

 

[BlueBaby]

Speaking about cockerel's, I just re-homed an Aloha one yesterday afternoon. I had 3 of them anyways, so I kept the 2 best colored ones with the best combs. I will continue to watch the 2 remaining one's so that I will be able to decide what one will be breeding with my buff Naked Neck pullet that started laying egg's recently. That will be my 1st generation to help out with the NN version of the Aloha's when I hatch. I also might have the change to get some hatching egg's from another local person that has some NN Aloha hen's but need's another rooster to have the fertile egg's, as her rooster had a coyote problem. I'm trying to see if she will take my Aloha rooster named Manoa, and then give me back some hatching egg's from them when they get fertile.

All of the rest of my flock is doing ok, and enjoying the less windy day's..