We did a thing.. expanding the flock!

[KhalSancho]

Ah, so you are both perpetuating a pure Araucana line and 'making' olive eggers.
Best of cLuck!!
Hope you post your blue eggs here once those pullets start laying.
Am a bit jeally of the good blues.

Exactly! And hopefully the BCM project expands well so I’ll have three big pens separated into my Araucanas, Marans and our own Olive Eggers!
Just so you know, I’m stealing that “best of cluck” for down the road lol
Will definitely post the blues.. I LOVE the Marans, and we got lucky to get em and have her start laying right away.. but the Araucana project with nice blue eggs was always my starter obsession!

 

[KhalSancho]

This was my pullet Giant first egg. I miss her dearly. I lost her over the summer when a predator came and took her. I still don’t know what killed her. She was the most sweet pullet I had.

That’s so sad!! What a beautiful egg layer too! So sorry..

 

[ariri30]

Thanks

That’s so sad!! What a beautiful egg layer too! So sorry..

 

[chrissynemetz]

Ooh!! Congratulations on your upcoming baby girl!!!

 

[Rooapalooza]

Almost all my chickens' (including maran's) eggs started off lighter and smaller and then got darker and bigger over time. Beautiful egg!

 

[KhalSancho]

Ooh!! Congratulations on your upcoming baby girl!!!

Thanks Chrissy! We’re about to leave the hospital now for false alarm contractions lol But Miss Killara Rae should be with us by Jan 28th.. can’t wait to hold her and kiss her!!

 

[KhalSancho]

Almost all my chickens' (including maran's) eggs started off lighter and smaller and then got darker and bigger over time. Beautiful egg!

You’ve got me EGGcited for the future!! That would be so awesome if they darkened up a bit!

 

[chrissynemetz]

What a beautiful name!!
Let us know when she makes her grand entrance!

 

[AusHen]

Congrats on the newest member of your family!
I totally understand, my incubator was a gift from my mother, I had been using the odd broody prior to getting it. I was located near Toowoomba but now I'm south of Brisbane.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

Roapalooza is right, wait till you babies get things figured out, then you'll see some fine eggs. I'm down to just one laying pair of leghorn hybrids and they are just coming into their own. I also have 6 Swedish flower hens that are about 7 weeks old and doing well. I envy you for having the moxie to move to another place like Australia, so remote, so different from America and our mettsican food and chicken McNuggets. Keep us informed with some pics of you blue eggs when they get here and good luck on your olive eggers...