Posted By Elaine on July 16, 2009
I was just about to give up on my hens and call them lazy until….
Our first egg!
Samuel went out this afternoon to let the chickens out to forage and check on the nests. I went out to watch and he shouted with glee…” we have an egg!”. I ran for the camera to capture it on film. I was so excited to learn that it was a green egg.
The green egg (whooo hooo)
Only one of our hens have a name so far. She flew up to my shoulder the other day and lets me pick her up. We named her Victoria. We think she is the one who laid this egg. She is an Aracauna chicken so they lay either green, blue, or pink eggs.
Victoria getting a drink
Y’all come back now!
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I am a work at home Mom of two of the best boys ever. I am a Nationally Certified Master Groomer and have been grooming out of my home for the last 12 years.
We have recently moved to Greenbrier Tn on 27 acres. We are new to the "homesteading thing" but we are excited to learn. We hope to be filling our farm with many critters and a garden.
We are homeschoolers so everything is a unit study to us. It has been fun to see the boys help Dad cut firewood. We will also be learning how to build a chicken coop in the near future as well.
I have been making handcrafted soap lately as well and I am seeing an improvement in that business as well. It is all natural vegetable and goat milk based soaps. Can't wait to share this experience with everyone.
I don’t know but I think we will have green egg and ham tomorrow!
Judy,
Thanks so much for continuing to read. My hens just turned 20 weeks on Monday. So you can understand my impatience that this is Thursday and I thought there was still no egg. Yea! I am wrong. We have quite the eventful day with the chickens. An hour after we found the egg I found one of my less dominate roosters dead in the coop. (after I had let everyone out for the afternoon). I thought is was because my dominate rooster was not letting him eat or drink but I could be wrong due to the fact that I found my precious Border Collie with one of the hens in his mouth. She seems to be fine for now but she lost a few feathers. So now I don’t know if Bullet scared the rooster to death or if he died by some other cause. Oh well, it is never boring around here.
Blessings,
Elaine
How old is she? Some breeds of chickens start to lay earlier than others. I’m told that birds who start to lay later in their pullet year continue to lay through the winter. Her subsequent eggs will probably be larger than this one. Congratulations to you and the boys. What a gift to humanity is the domesticated hen!
Wow, your own already colored Easter Egg! Cool! (Hey, I wonder if it wanted to ‘yoke around?’ (I’m so sorry…….)