not as dark as you wanted but atleast shes started the ball or egg rolling ..lol nice size egg to for a first egg..i bet they darken up with time ..i no i have some that seem to lay speckled one day and a real clean egg the next ..i read somewere also you can help with darkness of the shell by doing something in their diet...Yeah! First welsummer egg! Only been waiting around thirty weeks! I thought she was waiting for spring, it's been averaging 10F degrees sometimes below zero F.
Not as dark or spotted as I was hoping, but it's her first and bigger than my brown leghorns and eegrs.
i showed these eggs on the ny thread as well but since its a wellie egg i thought i'd post it here too ..
its a blue spotted egg ..i'ver never seen this before ..i started using red granit grit and upped the protein in their diet with scrambled eggs ..but cant figure out why it would have blue to purplish looking spots ..
Oh my goodness, they are so cute!!! I got mine as 9 weeks old so they were in the homely stage..I got my first Wellies! I'm so excited!
Now, no comments about no seatbelts!
They sure do go through an ugly duckling stage, don't they?
nice looking chickies there ..you no when you get your next batch of birds you have to keep them apart till they are all the same size ..or the bigger ones will get after the babys and kill them ..i am not trying to scare you, just giving you a heads up ..
