NY chicken lover!!!!

[LuvMyChicks1491]

It sound like the picnic is pretty big? How many people came last year? It sound like it might be fun.

With this not so cold weather it feels like it is late February instead of January. I guess that it is wishful thinking. I'm getting so excited for this spring! I was checking on my girls up close today. It looks like that they all have some frostbite on them. I checked out my roo tonight and it looks like his waddles got some too. I am so sad about it. The coop itself is well ventilated, but they spend most of their time during the day huddled in the duck hut when the weather is bad and I need to add more vents to it. So after I cleaned it this afternoon, I went and got the saw out and added a few more small vent holes for tonight then tomorrow I'm going to connect the dots to make some nice window vents. I have some more mesh to fix it up nice.

 

[Lynzi777]

It sound like the picnic is pretty big? How many people came last year? It sound like it might be fun.

With this not so cold weather it feels like it is late February instead of January. I guess that it is wishful thinking. I'm getting so excited for this spring! I was checking on my girls up close today. It looks like that they all have some frostbite on them. I checked out my roo tonight and it looks like his waddles got some too. I am so sad about it. The coop itself is well ventilated, but they spend most of their time during the day huddled in the duck hut when the weather is bad and I need to add more vents to it. So after I cleaned it this afternoon, I went and got the saw out and added a few more small vent holes for tonight then tomorrow I'm going to connect the dots to make some nice window vents. I have some more mesh to fix it up nice.

I hear ya...I was so upset to see Gru's comb today.

 

[ke5hde]

With a silkie egg for comparison.

 

[Lynzi777]

With a silkie egg for comparison.

If you were to collect just one egg a day from the same barnie does the shade of that hen's eggs change, like get darker or lighter or does it stay the same? So like the darkest eggs in that carton, are those more than likely from the same hen and there are other's laying lighter eggs? Or can a hen lay a dark egg one day and a slightly lighter egg the next?

 

[ke5hde]

If you were to collect just one egg a day from the same barnie does the shade of that hen's eggs change, like get darker or lighter or does it stay the same? So like the darkest eggs in that carton, are those more than likely from the same hen and there are other's laying lighter eggs? Or can a hen lay a dark egg one day and a slightly lighter egg the next?

I have no idea who's laying what egg, but I do know that I see the same eggs most days. So far they've been pretty consistent. I'm sure as the year goes on, they'll get a little lighter. My next batch in the incubator will only be from dark eggs to try to get them darker in later generations.

Edited. The pinkish one was a freak thing I hope. Haven't had one of those before and haven't seen one since.

 

[stonykill]

Our 2nd flock - samatras - roo & hen let us do this

SUmatra's. S U Matra's. Sumatra. Sorry it's the little things that drive me nuts

 

[Lynzi777]

SUmatra's. S U Matra's. Sumatra. Sorry it's the little things that drive me nuts

This is why I keep getting this breed confused...I've seen it spelled so many ways. The other day I came across someone mentioning Samuntras?! And then someone mentioned how small your birds were, Stony. I thought they were pretty average sized? ARE they small? I had no idea.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

chilly

 

[Lynzi777]

chilly

Sorry Stony, had to beat you to this one LOL

 

[Lynzi777]

I have no idea who's laying what egg, but I do know that I see the same eggs most days. So far they've been pretty consistent. I'm sure as the year goes on, they'll get a little lighter. My next batch in the incubator will only be from dark eggs to try to get them darker in later generations.

Edited. The pinkish one was a freak thing I hope. Haven't had one of those before and haven't seen one since.

My Buff Orp would lay one that shade from time to time.