Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[fisherlady]

Thank you! It is fun getting different colored eggs. The kids get really excited so that just doubles the satisfaction. Wait until you see the dark wellie eggs (though it's probably old hat to you after collecting and hatching hundreds. LOL) 

We have 2 of your Olive Eggers and when they were young, I knew which ones were the olives and which were pure by the difference in head coloring, but now that their crests are mature, I am stumped! I think that their crests aren't as full and feathery, but that is just a hunch. I've been watching to figure it out and as soon as I do, I'll get your some pics. You might have it figured out before me though!   

All of the birds are very pretty though. We have a variety of crest development as well as hackle coloring. Some are cream, some more golden. I'll get some pics. Maybe it will help me identify too. 

Funny story:
so while we were away, we had a friend take care of the chickens. Dh spoke with her today and she kept commenting on all the neat egg colors she collected while we were gone, but that the lavendar one was just so unique and she had never seen anything like it before. He could not figure out what she was talking about since we don't have any lavendar egg laying hens.   He discussed the green and the blue, the various shades of brown - darks, light, even the pinkish hue we get, but that lavender had him stumped. He relayed the conversation to me and I couldn't stop laughing as I reminded him of the "practice" egg I put in the box to suggest where the girls should conduct their egg laying business. Apparently, she hasn't tried to crack her lavender egg to eat yet. Won;t she be surprised and baffled when she does (It's ceramic!)!   Too funny not to share with ya'll. 

Hope she doesn't try to crack them into a glass bowl!! My step son did the same thing! We never thought to warn him about our 'fake eggs', but ours are shaded just like the real eggs so we marked Xs on the ends of them to tell them apart in the nest.

 

[LehighCounty4-H]

im starting two breeding projects this year and hopefully years to come my to breeds will be white Phoenix's/white cubalayas and blue shamos

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Thank you! It is fun getting different colored eggs. The kids get really excited so that just doubles the satisfaction. Wait until you see the dark wellie eggs (though it's probably old hat to you after collecting and hatching hundreds. LOL) 

We have 2 of your Olive Eggers and when they were young, I knew which ones were the olives and which were pure by the difference in head coloring, but now that their crests are mature, I am stumped! I think that their crests aren't as full and feathery, but that is just a hunch. I've been watching to figure it out and as soon as I do, I'll get your some pics. You might have it figured out before me though!   

All of the birds are very pretty though. We have a variety of crest development as well as hackle coloring. Some are cream, some more golden. I'll get some pics. Maybe it will help me identify too. 

Funny story:
so while we were away, we had a friend take care of the chickens. Dh spoke with her today and she kept commenting on all the neat egg colors she collected while we were gone, but that the lavendar one was just so unique and she had never seen anything like it before. He could not figure out what she was talking about since we don't have any lavendar egg laying hens.   He discussed the green and the blue, the various shades of brown - darks, light, even the pinkish hue we get, but that lavender had him stumped. He relayed the conversation to me and I couldn't stop laughing as I reminded him of the "practice" egg I put in the box to suggest where the girls should conduct their egg laying business. Apparently, she hasn't tried to crack her lavender egg to eat yet. Won;t she be surprised and baffled when she does (It's ceramic!)!   Too funny not to share with ya'll. 

That's to funny

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

im starting two breeding projects this year and hopefully years to come my to breeds will be white Phoenix's/white cubalayas and blue shamos 

That's cool I was thinking of starting to breed maybe Cochins, black Ayam cenami, black jersey Giants. And I haven't really decided what all I want to breed someday.

 

[chxmama]

im starting two breeding projects this year and hopefully years to come my to breeds will be white Phoenix's/white cubalayas and blue shamos

Sounds like a fun project!

 

[chxmama]

Ok, so the 2 dark brown eggs from yesterday? I think one may be from our black copper maran. Caught her in the nesting box this AM with the olive egger (CCL+wellie). Will hopefully be able to confirm later today.






CCL (olive egger), Welsummer and BCM (?) pullet eggs:



@dheltzel - I *think* this is my CCL olive egger. Trying to keep a watch on the boxes today and she was in it. My hunch is that the 2 olive eggers have less of a crest and it starts behind the comb as opposed to the other 3 CCL girls that have a very full, feathery crest on each side of the comb and behind. Will be able to confirm if she is the layer a bit later, I hope.






the other olive egger . . . i think?


guessing at the pure CCLs:

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

What's that speckled egg from

 

[BullChick]

Great looking flock and eggs!

 

[chxmama]

What's that speckled egg from

I think it's the Welsummer, but could be our BCM? It's a first, so trying to watch and figure out who is laying what. I just went out again thinking for sure there would be an egg from the BCM and CCL since they were both fighting over boxes and working on nesting, but no eggs in any of the boxes!

They don't make it easy to figure it out!

Great looking flock and eggs!

Thanks!

 

[Lelanae]

So you did continue to have prolapsing? Over a period of days as you worked on repairing the problem? or subsequent weeks or months?
Did you notice your hen pushing the area right out again after massaging it in? I didn't have the heart to stress her any more today. She's in a crate in a coop by herself right now. Food water and darkened. I'll try again tomorrow if that sounds like what I should be doing. Just try moving the egg to the center after lubing and gently massage to help her a bit then back to rest again?

I did collect 2 dark eggs from the other 2 wellies today so very excited about those pretty eggs!

I have been lurking, but have a moment today to respond to this too. My sweetest hen prolapsed about a month ago and since we have had our birds for less than a year, I was scared we were going to lose her. She looked so miserable and wasn't eating. I got a glove and preparation H and neosporin. I pushed it back twice that day and once the next. None of my flock had ever been interested in oyster shell and they were on layer feed, so I thought calcium wasn't an issue--but just in case, I put a clean dish of oystershell out. THEY ALL ATE IT LIKE CANDY! Crossing my fingers--I haven't had a problem since and Daisy is laying normally, eating heartily and still a cuddle bunny. Keeping that oyster shell out. I guess they eat it when they need it.