I ended up keeping just one. I’m 90% sure she lays a speckled brown egg. She started laying at about 7 months and has been a solid layer. Not a bad bird at all unless you were really hoping for a colored egg. The 3 Hoover’s chicks of Ameraucana type I kept, from the last order, lay a blue or...
13 eggs today from 17 hens! I believe 2 BC Marans have not started not laying. This means only 2 more hens I don’t know an egg color on yet. It also means almost every hen, from breeder or hatchery, who should lay a colored egg has. Plus lots of heavy bloom and speckles. Egg-citing!
Still lots...
Coldest temps of the winter thus far, -4, and these girls are still laying strong. Plenty of frozen eggs but I’m still thrilled they’re laying consistently. I also might have a new colored layer with a pale grey-blue egg. Wouldn’t that be cool?
Remember how yesterday I said my green speckled egg definitely wasn’t one of my Legbars? Guess who I saw making a nest in an empty corner then found the mystery green egg a little bit later? One of the “Legbars”.
It was then I remembered I also hatched a sexlinked backcross Olive egger female...
That looks like a pretty large egg for a bantam. It guess it’s something else. That’s based on my handful of bantam Cochins and Silkies I’ve had over the years. Their eggs were always very small.
I think it’s from a July hatch-a-long Legbar. I got my hatching eggs from a breeder who emphasizes blue egg color. This picture shows it a bit better. It’s a lovely shade of blue in person.
I have 3 hens and rooster from those Legbar eggs. Unfortunately, the rooster I kept, based on his chick...
I got another mint chip egg! 😍 I know it’s not the Marans or Legbars but everyone else is a possibility. If I took a guess I’d say it’s my only Silverudd’s hen. Since she’s the only bird I expected a medium green egg from. It seems a bit too fancy for a Hoover’s Easter Egger or my local barnyard...
I'm not sure which of mine are laying exactly. Checking my Flockstar app records it looks like I'm getting 3 dark brown (Marans), 4 regular brown, and 3 colored eggs. The colored eggs almost certainly come from July chicks. Unfortunately I haven't pinned down if they are from the Legbars or...