Since I didn't blog practically at all this last summer I'm combining several months of our chickens into one post.
The chickens started laying eggs in July, four months after we got them. It was exciting to find eggs in the hen house. None of our chickens lay white eggs and I can't remember what I was doing with the big one in the nest. Either it's an egg from the house or it's a blue egg from one of the Aracana's and I can't tell because it looks white in the picture. All the same though the chickens started laying!!!
At first it was a few eggs a day but it got up to where we could have been getting 18 eggs a day. You would think that we would have eggs coming out of our ears but with April's family, Joshua being here during the week while he was working and Larry's love for 4 eggs a day at least we didn't have a surplus.
The shapes and sizes are amazing to see. The eggs are not as uniformed as the ones you buy in the stores. Plus in the first month or so we would get double yoke eggs from some of the eggs. The chicken that laid the egg in the following picture got a lot of empathy from many women after I posted it on facebook. Ouch!
Back in August this Aracauna chicken started laying on eggs and wouldn't get off. So I let her lay on the eggs for over 21 days which is how long it takes to hatch eggs. They never hatched so I finally tossed them out. She moved on and though started running around again.
Chickens, chickens everywhere. 21 hens and 2 roosters to be exact.
Jovie named our roosters. This Speckled Sussex is Cockle. He's is the noisiest of the two and the most aggressive. He thinks he is king of the roost.
The chickens were either trying to break free or dig to China.
It's winter now and the laying has dropped dramatically. We get 3 - 6 eggs now a day which is hardly any for 21 hens. If you buy food for the chickens it is not cheaper to raise them yourselves. But we consider them part of our food storage.
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