Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

well, on the eggs... In my case, every girl that I have gotten from Skatter has laid a pinkish tinted egg, the same color as the faverolles, slightly bigger. Not a single one has laid a green egg yet... HOWEVER, I do have a few EEs that I picked up from Townline in February, and maybe when those ones have eggs that I put under a broody, maybe will get more green layers...
 
I have 5 EE hens. I get 2 blue eggs, 2 green eggs, and 1 pink egg from these girls. The 'pink' egg is more of a really light pinkish brown color. I have a couple Isa's that lay an egg almost as light but slightly more beige . . .
 
The EE hens that I hatch these chicks from lay blue... or well, mostly blue, slightly green. Some days I think, yea... they're blue, and other days I would think, maybe they're a little more to a green. LOL. My EE hens came from Townline.

Anyways, here is a picture I took late last summer. The first egg is from one of our EE hens (I have 2, they both lay the same color blue/green? egg). It's set next to a white egg from our leghorn.

The picture quality is horrible. Sorry about that... It was taken with my old cell phone, I have since gotten a new phone.

 
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What a busy day! & I'm still not done yet. Ugh. My friend's & I went out to Lisa's and picked up the chickens today. Those Partride Rocks sure are lovely looking birds! Thank you again Lisa. Also, we got talking about my "Easter Egger / Brahma" cross chicks. I'm hopeful that one of you wonderful chicken people will know the answer to my question. Our Brahma rooster fathered the 4 eggs from our Easter Egger hens. All 4 of the chicks have feathered feet (which is way cool... little beards & feathered feet). However, I was told that the "blue" gene for the egg color was from the rooster. Is there any chance these chicks could lay a blue/green whatever egg? Or won't they since the mom was the easter egger, not the dad... ??? Here are some chickie pictures. The 4 yellow are the easter egger/brahma cross, and the 4 black are barred rock/brahma cross. 7 Hatched yesterday, the 8th just hatched today.
Did the girls settle in well? Keep me posted!
 
Well, my best friend and I drove 156 miles one way today to get these......(I did the driving, and my friend supervises. lol)
It was a beautiful day for driving!

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In their new home at my friend's farm. We are keeping the Guernsey calves at his farm. I brought one, and my friend brought the other. Mine is the darker one, and I named her- Willow. The big cow with the horns- Bonnie- is the mother of my cow- Bella. She is pure Guernsey too, but my cow is half Guernsey.
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The other Guernseys at the farm where we got the calves from.
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This cow is about 11 or 12 years old, and still going strong!
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This cow (Sweety) is the mother of my calf.
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