Missing girl came home

[Wainbowmudd]

So much fun to have a colorful egg basket! I’m working on my rainbow basket as well.
Still waiting for eight of my pullets to lay!

Too exciting!! We are 1 for 6 so far! Hoping the other ladies follow Betty’s lead soon! They’re squatting, come on now! lol

 

[BY Bob]

My Betty girl came home! Well we found her through the grapevine and brought her back home. She was gone 28 days but ended up at someone’s house who has chickens and they homed and fed her, what their chickens would allow anyway, they said their chickens didn’t like her and when she got home she ate a LOT. Her comb and wattles grew so much while she was gone and she began squatting for them. We got her home last week and today she laid her and our first egg!! What a wonderful Thanksgiving gift! I knew she would be our first if she came back. Still not sure what breed she is but my best guess is New Hampshire red but her egg looks quite different than I thought it would. It does have a heavy bloom but it looks greenish tan under it. Thoughts? Maybe just a barnyard mix?

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What a wonderful story and a great day to get your first egg. Pretty sure she is some kind of a mix with those white ears.

Congratulations!

 

[Wainbowmudd]

What a wonderful story and a great day to get your first egg. Pretty sure she is some kind of a mix with those white ears.

Congratulations!

Thank you! Someone said maybe a whiting true green, its a hybrid breed, I looked them up and she fits the bill to a T! I'm pretty convinced that's what she is now.

 

[Wainbowmudd]

3rd Betty egg today! Wow what a beautiful color!!

 

[AntiqueB]

So glad she made it home, and just in time to lay those gorgeous eggs!

 

[Wainbowmudd]

So glad she made it home, and just in time to lay those gorgeous eggs!

Thank you

 

[Wainbowmudd]

Okay the 5th egg is just as eggciting!! Betty is definitely on par with being a whiting true green. It says they lay around 300 eggs a year. This is 5 days in a row so far like clockwork she nests from 9-10