Hello all.
Five (out of 6) of my 4.5 month old pullets have just started laying within the last two weeks. I finally collected enough to have a decent sized breakfast for my family, so i started cracking open the eggs. I started with the smallest ones first, so they were likely the very first...
On March 14th, I purchased what were advertised as brown leghorns (Rural King), BUT.... they finally started laying and they have only laid brown eggs. BTW, their earlobes are only partially white. Are they welsummers instead? Or a mix of the two? Or something else?
1st time chick owner here. I bought 6 brown Leghorns from Rural King about 3 weeks ago. (One didn't make it past the first week, so I replaced it with another Leghorn, but they only had white). The "runt" has also had some health issues; pasty butt, a bad leg for 2 days, etc, but I was able to...