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I just wanted to clarify😅 I read the millimeters in the picture that was sent. It wasn’t quite nine inches.
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sniper338 said:
Doing the dark egg, blue egg, green egg, olive egg thing with this new flock...
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I can definitely relate to this. My OCD has me logging every collected egg and for all the eggs with multiple layers I really have no idea of each chicken's production.
It took a little while, but 3 of my 9 layers lay unique colors and I was able to identify 2 of those 3 as they were the first 2 layers.
My 2 white eggs are slightly smaller than the others(medium?), so I know they're coming from the ones I think might actually be bantams. 4/5 of the remainder (my 2 black sex links, 2 rhode island reds, and 1 of my golden sex links) all lay roughly the same color medium brown eggs, but I have trouble figuring out who's who from the video. It's too dark inside the coop during the day, so my cameras switch to black/white.

Not that it really matters, since they're more pets than working farm animals, but it's fun to be able to celebrate things like the 100th egg from my jr chicken farmer's layer hatched as a classroom chicken. Maybe if I end up feeding them for a few years without eggs will I start to even consider culling, and that would just to "make room" for hatching some babies since I think that would be kinda fun.
 
ATXInstantFlock said:
I can definitely relate to this. My OCD has me logging every collected egg and for all the eggs with multiple layers I really have no idea of each chicken's production.
It took a little while, but 3 of my 9 layers lay unique colors and I was able to identify 2 of those 3 as they were the first 2 layers.
My 2 white eggs are slightly smaller than the others(medium?), so I know they're coming from the ones I think might actually be bantams. 4/5 of the remainder (my 2 black sex links, 2 rhode island reds, and 1 of my golden sex links) all lay roughly the same color medium brown eggs, but I have trouble figuring out who's who from the video. It's too dark inside the coop during the day, so my cameras switch to black/white.

Not that it really matters, since they're more pets than working farm animals, but it's fun to be able to celebrate things like the 100th egg from my jr chicken farmer's layer hatched as a classroom chicken. Maybe if I end up feeding them for a few years without eggs will I start to even consider culling, and that would just to "make room" for hatching some babies since I think that would be kinda fun.
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I’m just like that😂 I keep record of how many eggs I get every year and how many eggs from each chicken. It took me a little bit to figure out who had the tiny white specks, the oval shapes, and the big blotches.
 
ATXInstantFlock said:
Aww, they look like they're having so much fun! Maybe I should have stuck with my original idea not to cover half the pen with roofing. 😂
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No, covering the whole run would be recommended but I could not afford to cover all the runs. It would certainly keep the rain from ponding in the pens. Wet, muddy, cold conditions will kill gamebirds in a quick chilly minute!
 

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