Straub’s search for colored eggs

[Tstraub]

I haven’t posted an egg picture in a while. Today was a real slow egg day. Most of the hens are starting to molt and have slowed way down on laying. Some of the spring pullets are coming into lay. So far 2 of the three pullets did get the green egg gene and lay really nice olive eggs. Still waiting on one more pullet to show me what she’s got.

 

[Tstraub]

Smoky took the chicks up to the high roost tonight for the first time.



I got a good picture of my new favorite pullet Misty. I really like the way she looks. Something about the bearded ladies that strikes my fancy LOL.


Here is her egg from today

 

[NanaK]

I got a good picture of my new favorite pullet Misty. I really like the way she looks.

She is a beauty and so is her egg!

Something about the bearded ladies that strikes my fancy LOL.

Me too! In all my time raising chickens I've never had bearded gals. Well I decided to fix that this year.
So I picked up 6 EE pullets about 11 or so weeks ago. I need to name them. Love the beards and they are so friendly, curious and comical!

Here is a couple of my new young ladies.

 

[NanaK]

I don't know why it post the 2nd pic 2 times. It won't let me edit without removing the whole post???

 

[Tstraub]

Egg production is down a bit and most of the older birds are in various stages of molt. Smokey’s chicks are now 7 weeks old and getting more independent every day. They still all roost together at night.

The grow outs in the breeding pin are all doing well. They took right to the automatic door. So I haven’t needed to lock them up at night or let them out in the morning.

The pin ended up being too heavy to drag around the yard once we got a good rain it settled in and wouldn’t move any longer. I’m too cheap to buy one of those chick lift systems so I built one myself out of an old bed frame, a spare tire jack and a couple casters off of a zero turn mower. I also put a trailer jack on the front but it doesn’t roll well so I might look for a different solution for that part