Hi all...hope everyone has survived the winter. Oh Wait...it isn't gone yet. Well anyway. I thought I would post a couple of questions for our resident experts.
I have a heinz 57 chicken that I got from an elementary school hatch in May last year. First things first. She just started laying in January, took her sweet time, but the really weird thing is that she has white earlobes and is laying the most beautiful medium brown eggs. What the heck? I have no idea of her blood lines the farmer that provided the hatching eggs shrugged his shoulders when the teachers asked what type. She looks like she could be some kind of Orp cross, her name is Peach (the color of one) but she does indeed have white ear lobes and brown eggs.
Also Weird Chicken behavior question- I got Peach and Banana in May as day olds (Banana became Racoon food in August) and my local community garden gave me Big Bertha and Fluff (two I hatched from a batch of eggs that Thndrdancr donated to the Local Community Garden in Spring of '11) so that I would not have one lone Peach for winter. I was going to donate Peach to them, but they had an influx of birds and Bertha is a sweet bird that I have eyed since she hatched. Fluff was the lone silkie left out of the hatch and I took her because she and Bertha were pals. So I have a mixed and adopted flock and the point of this long description is...Any idea why they would pull every bit of straw out of both nest boxes? I cleaned the coop (an A-frame) and the next day all the straw is laying in the bottom of their run. I use a layer of news paper under the boxes just for easy clean out but put a healthy layer of straw on top. They pull all the straw out and then scratch a fluffed up mess of paper to lay their eggs in. I am confused.
Hope all are doing well this snowy Sunday afternoon. I think I will go check for eggs.
dwegz
Maybe in a few years I'll convince him they're fantastic and he'll cave in.
