lol good cover there Claire.
CHICKEN CHAT # 4 - For all the Chicken Heads
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Ahem...my apologies! Good Afternoon, all you crazy poultry lovers! heehee!
Sue ☺
♫ walking on sunshine ♫ ♫ ♫ wooowoooo ♫ walking on sunshine ♫ ♫ ♫ wooowoooo
My Cindy laid me a green egg LOL... no sillies.. not a bad egg, nor a green egg to go with my ham.. just a pretty easter green egg!!!
Just a few of this weeks eggs:
ok, so it is a pretty, light blueish green egg.. I set it next to a white egg because it was so hard to see the color... but hey.. who cares it IS green!!! hehehehehe!
And I don't know the quality of marans egg colors, but these girls are laying some pretty nice ones I think... and I think I have a rooster to boot.. The marans may have to be separated from the other breeds and we may have to try for true marans in the spring!
Fabulous eggs Fran! I had trouble making the blue-green color show up in photographs too. Those maran eggs are byoooootiful!
Taynors....who's George, eh?
Oh right, now I see. Got ya. Eh. :-)
Penalty on Moxon for egregiously Canadian vocab--eh?:0)
(As a pre-teen I was chastised by my new Michigan playmates for calling everyone a "guy"--"We aren't guys, were girls!" The tragic legacy of a Californian childhood)
Penalty?! I thought we were on a chicken shuttle, not in a hockey rink. You don't want to battle hockey terms with a Canadian. Especially when you're a Californian. Like I wouldn't want to argue surfing terms with you....
I'll just go hang ten now.
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Nope--Although I did spend some formative years in Michigan cultivating frost bite at the local outdoor skating rink. DH on the other hand grew up on the ice playing hockey and has the facial scars to prove it. But I'd rather not involve him.
Now to expose your Canadian provincialism--I'm from Northern California--you know San Francisco, Berkeley--that sort of thing. Lots of sentences starting with "So....", and a culture of baggy "green" clothes, urban chickens, "take back the streets" bike days and goat cheese. When we surf here, we do it with the Great Whites!
Take that you...you...Canadian!
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ROTFL....
Of course I have Canadian Provincialism! We have provinces, not States. LOL....
Berkeley...I would love to visit, and possibly live in, Berkeley. I so want to go to Chez Panisse and meet Alice Waters. Sigh. Now I'm jealous. I buy bamboo clothing sometimes, and organic cotton, and I want to feed my chickens organically, and I love goat cheese, so I'm sure I could fit in....
Somebody here in Iowa who lived in Berkeley for a while told me I would love it there and it would be like home to me. At one point I nearly moved to Eugene, OR.
So....
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OMG, frans, you are in EGG HEAVNE!!!
well, three california girls and a canadian, what trouble we could cook up!
tf
who is canadian
Josh, poor Commander Moxon is a Canadian. You two could form a colonial support group! Perhaps, in the interest of full disclosure, I should confess that my early American ancestors were Tories--Loyalists to the Crown during the Revolutionary War. Oh the shame. They painted their chimneys black:0(
Josh, you gotta get with the program, mate!!! My Canadian-ness came up in the chicken shuttle thread. South Pacific Ground Control has already been briefed on this matter! Anyway, we are both members of the commonwealth, so we shall form the Commonwealth Chicken Cheering Club.
Three Californians and a Canadian sounds like a whole lotta trouble to me!
Catscan - congratulations on your ancestors and long live the Queen. ;-)
Off to hunt down my breakfast tub of Greek yogurt.
Claire
i m from San Fran too !!!!!!! Palo Alto aka Shallow Alto LOL . So like that is cool.
SO i like Berkely too.
So my bro is in Santa Cruz surfing with the GW .
Never could understand surfing or snow skiing. To much work to go back up the hill and paddle back up stream LOL im lazy what can i say ! lol
check you all later eh.
So like totally awesome Taynors!
Will a hen that has been laying until it got to hot lay a very very thin rubbery shell egg? Reason I ask is I got them 4 roos with one possibly a hen they are a little over 4 months old, and was wondering if an already established layer would do this or possible it could be the 4 mo old one is a hen.
Oh them 4 RIR roos have not even attempted to crow.
Well all I can tell you is that the first 2 eggs from Henny Penny were soft rubbery shelled things and then they firmed up and now she lays normally. But maybe it can still happen later for a hen that is already laying. I just know it is associated with first eggs too.
Well i am hoping that one of them RIR's is a hen. The egg wasnt even in a nest it was on the edge and it was broken.
Post pix of them - maybe somebody can tell you if one of them looks more like a hen.
oh no way, it is all nasty looking. I already cleaned it up tho. It made me think of a smashed ping pong ball.
No, I mean post pix of the RIR roo/hens, not the egg. :-) Sorry, I don't make sense sometimes!
Oh ok, he he he, I will see if I can get them today.
ME laid a mix of rubber, shell-less and perfect eggs for the 3 weeks she laid. Every perfect egg and 1 shell-less was double yolked
was she young when she did this? My other hens are over a year old.
yep.. but I guess what I mean was, they weren't all in a row... we never knew what we were going to get..
But yep she was young.
ok good, that is what I thought. So keeps fingers crossed that roo might be a she. One other thing about these RIR, they do not fight.not at all. Now my younger birds do but nothing to bad.
ok here they are, I go out there and its a struggle to get them to pose.
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they look like mine
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L2G--I don't know if this why you think one of your roos might be a pullet--but my RIR had such huge red combs that I sent one to TF absolutely sure she was a he. The only give-away was that the combs eventually fell over--while a real roo's comb stays upright. My remaining RIR comb is much larger than my JG cross or Marans roos--but she lays such lovely eggs.
OK on the one and only I know for sure that is laying of my other girls she has the same comb that spiked one. And I know for certain she is a she. And she is on her 2nd year laying. Her comb is straight up. These guys are really confusing me by not fighting, and they even sleep next to each other.
Most of my pullets' combs are upright too. It is just the ones (BO and RIR) that have very large combs whose combs fall over. My roos don't fight either. I think a lot of roos that are raised together don't fight. It is horribly confusing. There just doesn't seem to be any trait short of observed egg laying that defines a pullet/roo. Some hens even crow!