How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Texag87]

Back to 6 today . New babies ship in three weeks. I will join the current flocks to make pen and coop room for the babies.

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Back to 6 today . New babies ship in three weeks. I will join the current flocks to make pen and coop room for the babies.

What sorts of babies did you order?

 

[Miss Lydia]

5-2
5 chicken and 4 duck

 

[Callender Girl]

All five runners have laid; it's too early for the lazy chickens to begin production.

One of the eggs has a faint greenish cast and. no doubt, the same girl laid a more green egg last week. These eggs aren't as green as the ones laid by Quinn, my original runner hen who died over the winter.

But, it's almost like one of the younger girls is offering a tribute to her. It makes me smile.

 

[Texag87]

What sorts of babies did you order?

My wife has always wanted Cayugas. I ordered two of them, two black runners, two blue runners, a chocolate runner, and a fawn and white runner.

 

[Callender Girl]

I've never had Cayugas, but I LOVE runners!!

 

[Texag87]

I've never had Cayugas, but I LOVE runners!!

I know I have said it before on here. While researching ducks before we got any, I saw still pictures of runners and thought I would never get any of those. Our original brood of ducklings was TSC roulette . Bandit totally changed my mind about runners.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Duck 7
Chicken 5

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

I’m just shrugging my shoulders at this point. Mine have ramped up their “secret nest building” skills 100%. Will I find zero, or will I find ten? There was a hidden nest under a half bale of hay one day, and another under a turned over Rubbermaid box another.

Also, despite barely having confirmation that both ’Scovies have started laying for the season, they are both “peribroody” already.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Those scovy's don't need much to get them started. I have one broody on nothing but shavings.