New Additions and How They Grow

[RollingAcres]

Love your chicks @ldawntaylor ! They are so cute!
I got an Easter Egger as well who lays green eggs.

 

[ldawntaylor]

Today's eggs, I might get two others but I doubt it.

 

[ldawntaylor]

On to the most recent pictures, taken today.

Now for the Ameraucanas...

It will be interesting to see what the changes in color might be.

 

[Baymule]

Pretty eggs! I love a carton of colored eggs.

 

[ldawntaylor]

Me too.

And my other bantam laid her first egg of the season. That, or one of the Wyandottes laid a smaller egg than usual.

So, I got 7 eggs today, while normally I get 3 or 4.

 

[RollingAcres]

Love the variety of colored eggs you have there!

 

[ldawntaylor]

Thanks, from the eggs alone you can see I have a mixed flock.

 

[RollingAcres]

I'd love to have one that lays dark brown eggs. I only have 2 hens and only 1 is laying. The other for some reason hasn't lay in a while. She's healthy and plump. So now she's just a companion to my other laying hen.

 

[Bruce]

I suspect Easter Eggers is going to be more accurate.

Yep. The only "chipmunk" patterned APA Ameraucana is the silver and you would have paid big bucks for that from a private breeder.

It is fun to watch the feather pattern changes in some breeds. White Rocks, not so much, they are just white. Black Australorps don't change a whole lot other than losing the white. But with EEs, lots of change. No idea what a 2 day old will look like as a 5 month old.

This is a 24 day old EE


This is her 2.5 months later


And a month later

 

[ldawntaylor]

That bird is very pretty.

With these birds being from a hatchery, Cackle if memory serves, I would be very surprised if any were purebred.

The adult pictured earlier in the thread is purebred. I bought her from a breeder in this general area. That breeder seems to have a good reputation. I got my Welsummers from him too.

I look more at a healthy bird rather than bloodlines.