These chickens are confusing me!! How pathetic is that?!
I got home from work a bit ago and went out to check on the chickens. (Here's my crazy post from this morning: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=294428)
Here's the picture from this morning - this is Mabel's chosen nest, and Hawkface being quite rude sticking her beak where it doesn't belong.
This afternoon when I went out to check on the girls, Hawkface is sitting on Mabel's "nest". She left the nest as soon as she heard everyone else getting chatty about the afternoon snack. I looked in the house to see what eggs there were, if there were any, and found 5 new eggs. With 5 new eggs in the house, it doesn't really look like we have an egg eater. Or maybe she just didn't feel like having eggs today?? Anyway, there were 3 in Mabel's nest, and 2 up in the nest loft. I'm not really sure who laid these though! Here's a picture of the eggs from Mabel's nest area:
My confusion is the color of the eggs. This is what I've been used to finding:
Foghorn (Leghorn) - White eggs in the nest loft (Found one there today)
Little Golden Hen (Seabright) - Small cream eggs in nest loft (Found one there today)
Hawkface (EE) - Blue/Green eggs in nest loft
Chicken Little (Barred Rock) - Big brown eggs random places on the floor of the chicken house
These eggs, the ones in the picture above, have me scratching my head. The two lighter colored eggs in this picture are about the same color as Little Golden Hen's eggs, only they're slightly bigger. These cream colored eggs are closer to the size of Hawkface's eggs, but they're obviously not blue/green. The darker egg in this picture is similar in color to Chicken Little's eggs, but it's a little smaller than what she's been laying and it was very speckled and her eggs have never been speckled before.
We do have another Seabright hen, but she doesn't even have a comb yet so I can't imagine she'd be ready to lay. Mabel and Penny are both Partridge Rock's, I think I was expecting their eggs to be similar in color to Chicken Little's eggs.
Any idea what's going on with these girls??
I got home from work a bit ago and went out to check on the chickens. (Here's my crazy post from this morning: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=294428)
Here's the picture from this morning - this is Mabel's chosen nest, and Hawkface being quite rude sticking her beak where it doesn't belong.
This afternoon when I went out to check on the girls, Hawkface is sitting on Mabel's "nest". She left the nest as soon as she heard everyone else getting chatty about the afternoon snack. I looked in the house to see what eggs there were, if there were any, and found 5 new eggs. With 5 new eggs in the house, it doesn't really look like we have an egg eater. Or maybe she just didn't feel like having eggs today?? Anyway, there were 3 in Mabel's nest, and 2 up in the nest loft. I'm not really sure who laid these though! Here's a picture of the eggs from Mabel's nest area:
My confusion is the color of the eggs. This is what I've been used to finding:
Foghorn (Leghorn) - White eggs in the nest loft (Found one there today)
Little Golden Hen (Seabright) - Small cream eggs in nest loft (Found one there today)
Hawkface (EE) - Blue/Green eggs in nest loft
Chicken Little (Barred Rock) - Big brown eggs random places on the floor of the chicken house
These eggs, the ones in the picture above, have me scratching my head. The two lighter colored eggs in this picture are about the same color as Little Golden Hen's eggs, only they're slightly bigger. These cream colored eggs are closer to the size of Hawkface's eggs, but they're obviously not blue/green. The darker egg in this picture is similar in color to Chicken Little's eggs, but it's a little smaller than what she's been laying and it was very speckled and her eggs have never been speckled before.
We do have another Seabright hen, but she doesn't even have a comb yet so I can't imagine she'd be ready to lay. Mabel and Penny are both Partridge Rock's, I think I was expecting their eggs to be similar in color to Chicken Little's eggs.
Any idea what's going on with these girls??
