It's about time! Our new chickens started laying eggs in January. Mary, who is an Ameraucana breed lays green shelled eggs (just as we hoped). Ameraucana chickens look a little different, with fluffy neck feathers and a short, hookish beak. To me they look a little hawk like.
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| Not our Mary, but looks just like her! |
Our other new chicken, Shirley, is a Barred Rock and lays brown eggs.
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| Again, not Shirley, but a splitting image! |
Our Shirley is always fluffy so she looks really fat all the time. She is such a good chicken, really personable and doesn't mind being held or petted. She is very aggressive about food, so if you have some she is your best friend!
Of course there was excessive documentation of the first eggs!
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| Both a little smaller than "jumbo"eggs, but decent size for first eggs! |
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| As usual, the yolk is proportionally bigger that store bought eggs. |
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| Hard to see here, but after we hard boiled the green shelled eggs, the inside of the shell is a light blue. |
Easter will be interesting this year... what will the green eggs look like when we color them?
Maybe we won't color them at all!
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