they lay the blueish eggs. they took a lot longer to start than the other girls and we thought they might be roosters. happy they are not!
frida really wants an egg 🙂
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finally we have definitive proof that at least one of the ameraucanas is not a rooster.
all of the other girls from our new flock of backyard chickens have been laying for weeks, but no blue eggs from the ameraucanas. we were beginning to think they might be roosters ( though they were lacking other very obvious rooster traits ) or they were doing a good job of hiding or eating their eggs.
but, whoohoo, today we had a surprise in the nesting box!
they don’t taste different but for some reason having blue eggs in the fridge adds a little more fun to the cooking routine.
The Girls are getting bigger!
still on our dining room table under a heat lamp but their wing feathers are coming in.
The Girls sense that spring has almost sprung.
first 67°F and breezy day of the year and The Girls were all clucking loudly LET US OUT TO GET ALL THE BUGS HUUUUMAN! so i did.
we’ve really enjoyed this small flock of hens for the past two years. they are super sweet. i think we’ll probably keep them around for awhile longer even though we have new layers coming in. so they’re not going to be dinner for a local amish family just yet 🙂
the chicken coop cleaning will continue until moral improves.
the first 50°F day since winter arrived means it’s chicken coop cleaning time! always better to do it now before it gets too warm and stinky 🙂
The Girls seem to appreciate the cleaning though one of them wouldn’t leave the roost while i was cleaning which was curious. i wonder if she’s sick.
305/365. deep thoughts while checking on The Girls.
sometimes it strikes me how odd it is that we have domesticated dinosaur descendants in our backyard that turn house food scraps into delicious domesticated dinosaur descendant eggs. the very same eggs that helped them survive a mass extinction event. and that as a species they’re evolving 15 times faster than expected.
some people think chickens are not so smart. but maybe they’re just watching and waiting us out while they get fitter, faster. knowing they can survive.
288/365. herding The Girls.
that thing where your neighbor calls to let you know The Girls are wandering the streets and you spend an hour trying to round them up. and all this because your malamute loves to let them loose. sigh.
this one, in particular, was So Very Not Happy upon being captured. i don’t think she knows how good she’s got it!