What is your favorite color of eggs?

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Pepper almost sounds like my Cream Legbar pullet (the one in my avatar) named Hazel! She's definitely the loner. Pretty sure she only thinks about foraging, because she doesn't care at all what's going on around her. She's also very "I'm my own chicken no need for a flock" except that she still wants to be around our Cuckoo Marans. They're best friends, basically.

Pepper was Salts best friend, but she didn’t really care when she left, I think it was more of Salt following her.
Pepper had some beautiful chicks though! I sold one and the other I sold after Salts got killed by a cat and it started getting depressed to the same family that had Salt and Bear disappeared with the entire flock one day.
I can’t wait to see what her babies will look like if Kia ever gets the guts to fertilize her eggs

The babies are peppers, Bear is the darker one, Junebug is the lighter one, the dad was a barred mix of sorts

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Why would an owl take the head off and not the whole thing or at least munch on it a bit? I know owls like to try to swallow their prey whole when they can but didn't think they would leave it behind unless scared off.

aaron

I’m not sure, that’s why I thought it was one of her retrievers, but I remember reading somewhere that if the owl is rushed or not able to go back down they’ll end up accidentally just taking the head. But that doesn’t sound likely for her flock

 

[Nyhillbillies]

Chocolate is a flavor, right?! I voted for it!

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Chocolate is a flavor, right?! I voted for it!

Not only are chocolate eggs delicious but actual chocolate eggs are gorgeous too

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Wait until you see the PRICE of those eggs now

Aaron

Prices of EVERYTHING! This government administration is really sockin it to us! Gas & Food are outrageous. EVERYTHING is triple or quadruple what we're used to...EVERYTHING IS UP EXCEPT OUR INCOME!!!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I’m not sure yet! She’s about, I want to say 5-6 months? So she’ll start soon!
She’s one of my laying girls rather then show girls so I don’t have many pictures of her… she’s hard to catch anyways
I do believe they do though, based off of pictures I’ve seen

Beautiful

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Why would an owl take the head off and not the whole thing or at least munch on it a bit? I know owls like to try to swallow their prey whole when they can but didn't think they would leave it behind unless scared off.

aaron

It is weird. I found a headless body of a large rabbit near my back door once, which was very upsetting as that rabbit was so friendly. She'd hang out with me as I was gardening. She liked the deck & steps at my back door, gave her some cover, She'd scoot under my truck, make her way under my steps & deck & go around the side of the house where there's some good greens to munch. When I had the chickens out gardening with me, she'd either lay stretched out watching us or hop around among the chickens, eating clover with them. She'd go into their pen with them & once started digging a little hole to have her babies. I felt bad I had to chase her out, once the pen door is shut she'd be stuck in there, though.

Anyway, I Googled what would take the head & leave all that meat behind, and learned owls do that. I like owls, like hearing them hooting, I know they gotta eat, too, but I wish they'd focus on mice at my place. I really liked that sweet rabbit.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

I love spotted/mottled eggs. Any color.
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Completely agree..my light brahma lays pink-brown speckled eggs that are just beautiful

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Ouch.

Ouch indeed.
I hear when a hen is laying, the squawking then the other chickens joining in the squawking (I presume they're rooting her on). I can tell by her squawk, when an egg is large, poor hen. She's a big girl, but still, must be tough pushing that egg out.

 

[SueT]

I chose white because my eggs are all white. I think white makes it easier to candle the eggs. But they aren’t all exactly the same white. Let’s see, I have ivory, alabaster, cream, linen, bone, frost, powder, parchment, porcelain, pearl…..