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[Rainwolf]

erm I have to disagree

My Black Jersey Giant x Black Sexlink hen lays eggs darker then my Maran.

When she starts laying again I'll take photos

Really, you must not have a dark egg laying Marans.
 Here is a picture of our eggs from our girls, this was last year I think.  Also some blue eggs too, dont have those girls anymore..

My Maran lays a cinnamon brown egg and it is fairly dark but not as dark as yours.
My JG mix lays very dark brown and was a total surprise to me when she started laying... and my neighbor who has 2 of her sisters also get really dark brown eggs. It is not as dark as those but still darker then 1/2 the Maran eggs I've seen...

 

[Rainwolf]

[COLOR=0000CD]HI everyone...    I am planning out my garden for this spring and I am planning some extras for my girls. I know they LOVE lettuce and tomatoes, but is there anything else I should grow for them that they would love? I love giving my girls fresh treats [/COLOR]

squash! and any greens really they are not picky much.

 

[Chickielady]

Exactly! The coyote population in this neighborhood has boomed. Some people were seriously freaked out when they saw a pack of four or five really big ones standing and watching their toddler. I was going to go on a rampage if my dogs got mange because of that one coyote.

And so it goes....pets will disapear, small foo foo dogs will go first...those beloved little EXPENSIVE foo foo dogs...and cats...and backyard rabbit hutches will be torn to bits (a coyote will eat through chicken wire) kids will be crying.....little fluffy has disapeared !
I remember a Golden Eagle soaring in the hills of San Bruno (as a kid) up by Crystal Springs Reservoir...and down it dove, like lightening !
Into a fenced backyard, where it snatched up a little poodle & flew away.
Wowsers!!!!!!!

A few minutes later the woman was in the backyard calling for Fluffy.........
We watched it all from a bluff above the civilization. (This was in 1968 ?????????)

 

[Chickielady]

Ewwwwwww!!! Cat spray is nasty stuff.

I say you get DH to put that Christmas sniperscope to good use!

Oh yeah..he is on the job...spy cam mounted down on the little boat's bow.......aimed at the driveway.....where he put the trap fixed with a chicken wing....and UPS is due again tonight.

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

This is a close-up of the breaks in the Grimes Golden apple tree over my primary gate into the orchard and pasture. I misunderstood the nature of the thing when I last described it; it seems tht there is a saddle-break of two smaller branches with a much larger break hung up in the smaller of those two branches and in the intact branch (to the left of the obvious break) which is also partly over the corner of the Wyandotte coop. Isn't that just special?
It makes going out into the orchard an adventure on the level of crossing I-5 on foot at 5pm.

Oh, goodness. It's like those horror movies where someone goes into the kitchen (usually female, blonde and adorable) and you just know she's not going to come back.
Substitute 'orchard' for 'kitchen' and that's what you've got there...
Sorry - and good luck getting it dealt with, for yourself and for the Wyandottes. Truly special indeed.

 

[KMHunter]

Wow! I haven't been on in SOOO long! I took a little break from the internet and electronics for the most part.
I will try to catch up a little in the next few days.
I have been down with the flu for the last 4 days. I am just starting to feel better.
My oldest DH came to us a few weeks ago and told us he wants out of his school and to go to a small school where he can get more one on one and be less distracted. So we have been jumping through a few hoops to get him into a private "alternative" school here in Woodinville.
I hope it is a better fit for him.
I was getting kind of worried that he wasn't going to have everything he would need to graduate.
Keeping my fingers crossed that this works.

I hope everyone has been doing well and your chickens are also doing well.

XO,
Kim

P.S.- I think I have a white egg layer in the flock! One of my youngest ones has white earlobes!

 

[Chickielady]

squash! and any greens really they are not picky much.

She is right !
I over plant greens, lettuce & spinach varieties, some for us, alot for them.
I also plant too much zuchinni, and let theirs grow big ! Way past the stuffing size, then half lonways, and put a zuchinni "boat" in each coop.
The biggest thing to do though, is to palnt alot of winter squash, and her the favorites are (hands down, or rather wings down ) are spaghetti squash & sweet meats squash.
Both are a winter squash that can be left to ripen on the vine (until frost kills the vine to accumulate as much sugars as possible) and then cut them off the vine, spray the bleach solution on the cut end, and store in clean straw (try not for them to touch) in a cool dark place.
I hack open a sweet meats every 3-4 days here, have to use an ax or machete with help of a hammer to cut through.
WE love the squash too !
I upended a lumber pile (covered by a tarp) a few days ago & found a big pile of sweet meats seed that were chewed open on 1 end & the inner seed devoured.
Yes, we have very well fed rats !
Until now.
No more food left out over night.
Not even vegies !

 

[Chickielady]

My Maran lays a cinnamon brown egg and it is fairly dark but not as dark as yours.
My JG mix lays very dark brown and was a total surprise to me when she started laying... and my neighbor who has 2 of her sisters also get really dark brown eggs. It is not as dark as those but still darker then 1/2 the Maran eggs I've seen...

I have hatched eggs from Zgoatlady & she does have deep dark brown layers.
Thick membrame & difficult to hatch...but if you are ready for them it is easy to help the babies a little

One pullet is going to FlyRobinFly, with this, her egg: (the deep dark ones)

 

[Chickielady]

The Cuckoo Marans also have nice dark eggs...but toward the Fall (as all Marans) can lay a lighter egg.
here is some Cuckoo eggs:

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: So, I'm thinking that the egg second left bottom is called an Olive Egg? Looks much more like Khaki to me. The darks are they Marans or something else? (I have one Blue Copper Marans, but she's at a friends house with his Marans Cock, trying to get some purebreed eggs)

I like the speckled ones - are they Javas? I have a Java and I get one speckled egg about 4 times a week, but since all the hens are together, the only ones I really know are the AmsX and the Icees. I guess when I want to hatch some, I just put them in solitary until I know which ones are which.