There she is in all her sassy glory. Half the size of her orpington sisters but twice the amount of attitude. if i open the nesting box to load one up at night…she will fly out and need recaptured, you can be sure. Americaunas are smart chickens so if you are used to orpingtons…you’ve been …
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The Pullets’ First Carton of Eggs
This was the first whole carton of eggs the pullets ever laid. The eggs started out very tiny. I had to decide which of the people i supplied with eggs got the first batch of enchantingly tiny eggs because as the chickens grew, so too would the eggs, and only one carton was ever this …
The Pullets Lay their First Eggs
When the rat snake posted up inside the pullets’ pen i thought, “what in the world are you doing in there? Why not get in the adult chicken pen where they have an occasional egg? Because the pullets were not supposed to start laying until september, so they started 3 weeks early. Turns out, the …
The First Egg Appears
Depending on the hatchery i got each of the chickens from, some of them lay fewer eggs during the winter and some of them stop laying eggs during the winter. I believe it was a 3 fold problem. One, less chickens were laying because it was winter. Two, the chickens did not like the kind …
Oddly Shaped Eggs
I have had more oddly shaped eggs with this batch of pullets than i ever witnessed from the last two groups combined. fairy eggs, hard eggs that appear to be crinkled as if made of fabric, wrinkled eggs, eggs that appear to have been cracked and then sealed over at some point…eggs with extra bits …
An Eggciting Haul
With the wet weather and high humidity of the past week i have had to wrench the chicken coop door open to collect eggs during brief drier spells: every two to four days. When it is wet the wood door swells and cements itself to the frame. today i collected after not being able to …
A Fairy Egg
One of the chickens laid a fairy egg. It is the first one i have gotten in 4 years. I saw an occasional calcium deposit on the original batch of chickens’ eggs. Ellis and Oakley at times had a weird bump at the top of the egg. However, these new pullets have just been going …
The Pullets Ramp up Production
The pullets started laying an egg a day with the arrival of warmer weather. in some cases it was in the 70s and 80s in the afternoons. The people who were getting eggs from me regularly had discovered free range eggs from homesteaders who had time and ability to stand guard over free ranging chickens …
The Pullets Graduate
I have orpingtons. Everything ive read about these chickens says they are supposed to start laying eggs around 6 months of age. Yet, my second batch of chickens started laying at around 5 months and these last pullets began laying at 4.5 months. I am not complaining. I think its great. I just wasnt ready …
Quality Checking the Eggs
Recently at a party a man i had supplied with eggs for free at one time sat down beside me and told me that the eggs he was getting from the social worker were much better, the yolks were oranger and richer than mine. He accused me of never giving my chickens people food scraps …