The New Flock 2021: Back to Basics

[speckledhen]

They hear me talking and they all have to answer at once. My men.
Bee is great today, fiesty and busy and back with her peeps. I feel like she dodged a bullet.

 

[getaclue]

It's great that you were paying attention. Yes, males start out very rough and clumsy. Most learn over time, but not all. You'll have to keep an eye out for her, since she's small.

 

[speckledhen]

I'm trying, but of course, can't be with her 24/7. Forrest is making an extra effort to get those girls, poor little man.

 

[speckledhen]

Okay, someone is laying a teensy green-blue egg, smaller than the bantam Cochin egg beside it. Either one of the EE pullets has the tiniest large fowl pullet egg I've ever seen (this is the 2nd I've had this tiny) or bantam Cochin Cricket is laying a green egg. Yikes. I have not seen Cricket sit on a nest, but I have seen both Luna and Bee's eggs. Don't know if EE Juliette is laying yet, haven't observed her on a nest.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Those are some gorgeous eggs.

It's probably a small pullet egg from one of your EE. I've never had a pure Cochin lay anything but a buff colored egg.

 

[getaclue]

You can always put on a glove, put some food coloring on a finger of the golve, different color for each of the suspects, put it just a little way inside the vent, and around the outside of the vent, and soon you'll know.

 

[speckledhen]

Haha, I was sort of kidding, but it reminded me of someone on BYC whose supposedly pure Orpington was laying green eggs! I'm sure it's an especially small EE pullet egg.

 

[getaclue]

Hey, there is nothing wrong with tie dyed eggs. Tie dyed beats green Orpington eggs any day of the week.

 

[speckledhen]

Cricket just gave us her first egg and it's darker than the splash girls', bigger, too, a good size for a first egg, too.

 

[speckledhen]

Sorry I have not posted here. I have not seen my new flock in a month other than one exception. If you follow the Atlas thread, you know I broke my leg and have been pretty much bedridden. Once, my husband brought Cricket in to see me, but he has so much on his plate, I can't keep asking him to bring various birds in for a visit. They are apparently doing well. Ripley is driving him crazy with her highwire act, seeming to search for some Holy Grail nest box to lay her eggs in and once, he could not find the #13 bird. He was walking the barn aisle for the umpteenth time and heard a noise, looked down and found Bee in a bucket of poopy shavings laying her egg. This is the silliest bunch I've ever raised.