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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...

Oops. 😝

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?

Just for fun.

Maybe you shouldn’t put too much weight on what I said. I can’t even keep my own birds straight! :lau (Read post #294).

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...

Nice! That’s a day to celebrate.

Congrats! Love that color. :love

New layer today!

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...

What am I looking at here? Is it hard, soft, frozen? Its been a few days now. Any more oddballs? Lash eggs can get pretty funky looking. Yours looks like a hard boiled egg.😆

This thread pops up now and then with people inquiring about Crowber's SketchUp plans. If you'd like these please message me with your email address. I can't send the original .skp file through BYC messenger. Keep in mind this will just gets you the 3D renderings (you'll need a SketchUp account...

Today’s eggs. We missed picking up last night which is why we got so many today. The blue egg is new. Some of my favorite eggs: pink and speckled.

First colored egg! This bring our total to 6 layers. All started within the last 3 weeks. The colored egg is almost certainly from my July chicks. Making this hen 25 weeks old. If I had to guess I’d say it was one of the Legbars.

Beautiful egg and hen! Where was she from?