What is your favorite color of eggs?

[PicoFarm]

You may be right...I find myself thinking about alpacas, goats, horses & turkeys. Plus moving to More land...for More Animals...Like I MUST be nuts.

Horses are by far the most expensive among those, not including purchase price:
* Hay prices driven by drought (and transport - eg. diesel costs);
* Grain prices same as above;
* Bedding cleaned regularly; Breaking Ice on the buckets (or run electric to the bar for heated waterers);
* Ferrier (hoof care) every 4-6 weeks;
* Veterinarian minimum of once a year, and can't move your horse for stabling elsewhere without certain vaccines and documented negative test results;
* Floating (teeth care) annually;
* Your property insurance will increase if you keep them onsite; you'll pay boarding fees if you keep them offsite;
* Your life insurance costs will increase;
* Horse trainer/schooling fees - for you and the horse;
* You have to be a little nuts to ride an 800-1,300 pound animal that can spook themselves into injury and dump you on your head.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time riding.

 

[PicoFarm]

Whenever I sit down, they come over & either jump in my lap or jump up on my shoulder if my lap is occupied by another chicken
I got this pic right before she jumped on my shoulder.
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[luckycluk]

My favorite color of chicken egg is spearmint! My second would probably be blue.

On the topic of chicken egg coloring, is there any breeds of chickens (that are not hybrids) who lay spearmint eggs? I would like to know!

@SwampQueenChick

the eggs with this post are not natural color right? If by some miricale i want to know what kind of Hen lated the purple egg

 

[artbykarenehaley]

My friendliest chicken is an Easter Egger named Cutie. Her egg is sage green with greyish spots. She's the chicken that likes to sit between my feet when I go outside and relax in a lawn chair. (Usually because if I'm eating something chicken friendly I'll sneak her a goodie when the others aren't looking).

But all my EEs are friendly. even Spooky warmed up to us, despite the fact that she was the most flighty out of our original six in this flock. Spooky has some issues. Her hormones go bonkers in the spring and she dominance mates the lower birds on the pecking order. Makes a weird attempt at crowing. Lays lumpy or holey eggs if I don't keep up her extra eggshell treat every day. She's my loose cannon. But she likes my toddler, the wildest one in the family, and follows her and lets her pick her up. Gets in fights with my daughter's favorite. Go figure.

My third EE, Nutmeg, hatched here. She is definitely my favorite. She snuggles he neck in the crook of my elbow. She likes to perch on my foot. She doesn't lay blue or green, she lays a cream egg. She is flighty if I'm up and walking around but comes to see me if I'm sitting. The egg she hatched from came from my sister's flock of EE and Mosaics. The mosaic egg color is cream so that interfered with the blue genes, but she's my only cream egg layer so I like to see that anyway.

They have widely differing body types. Cutie I'm almost certain has creeper genes, she has such short legs. Her beard is so big! After she moults that I have to trim it so she can see.

Spooky has a lovely long tail, a wide body and lovely fluffy butt feathers. She's my second largest chicken. Her peacomb is floppy and it jiggles around like a turkey snood, which I think is funny. Her face is always grouchy lookin.

Nutmeg has a neat look. She is fibromelanistic, has a black beard with a white (silver) breast, and a gradient of speckles, lacing and barred feathers that end in a black tail. She has such a narrow body, I'm glad her eggs are small. There's no consistent look for my EE but that's the nature of a handful of quirky, loveable mutts.

 

[SilverBirds]

the eggs with this post are not natural color right? If by some miricale i want to know what kind of Hen lated the purple egg

I believe the cover photo is of dyed easter eggs. Sometimes a hen will lay an egg heavy with bloom making it look purple.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Oh I saw that one, also. It's tempting.

I put an awning on mine with some outdoor fabric, similar to this idea:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/157274211987576733/

That is so cute! I love it!

 

[Aunt Angus]

You may be right...I find myself thinking about alpacas, goats, horses & turkeys. Plus moving to More land...for More Animals...Like I MUST be nuts.

Goats are AMAZZZIINNNGGGGG!!!!!!

DO IT!

 

[TJAnonymous]

What chicken breeds produce blue eggs? I’ve had Americanas who had such light, mossy green, it almost appeared blue, but never full on blue!!

I get blue eggs from my Ameracaunas, Cream Legbars, and Prairie Bluebells.

I also get greenish eggs from a few Ameracaunas too so I think it comes down to parentage and genetics. Note - I'm talking about genuine Ameracaunas and *not* Easter Eggers

 

[Liz Birdlover]

That is so cute! I love it!

I like those awnings...looking into that as well.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Horses are by far the most expensive among those, not including purchase price:
* Hay prices driven by drought (and transport - eg. diesel costs);
* Grain prices same as above;
* Bedding cleaned regularly; Breaking Ice on the buckets (or run electric to the bar for heated waterers);
* Ferrier (hoof care) every 4-6 weeks;
* Veterinarian minimum of once a year, and can't move your horse for stabling elsewhere without certain vaccines and documented negative test results;
* Floating (teeth care) annually;
* Your property insurance will increase if you keep them onsite; you'll pay boarding fees if you keep them offsite;
* Your life insurance costs will increase;
* Horse trainer/schooling fees - for you and the horse;
* You have to be a little nuts to ride an 800-1,300 pound animal that can spook themselves into injury and dump you on your head.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time riding.

I wish I had the video of my daughter and our thoroughbred, Thor, from the time she was dying his tail black for a horse show and made the HUGE mistake of tying a Walmart bag to his tail... He thought it was literally going to eat him.... It took us TWO HOURS to calm him down enough to take it off. Nothing like a 17.2 hh, 2000 lb animal to act like the biggest scaredy cat you've ever seen...