We've waited a while for the Chicks to start laying eggs. In the last few weeks we've gone from three eggs a day from the old Hens to about fourteen a day! When the Chicks really get going, we should get about thirty eggs a day. But, what I've been waiting for is a pastel Ameraucana egg! It's why I got the breed, aside from the fact that they are beautiful hardy birds, because they lay gorgeous blue/green eggs! The eggs are ultimately no different in taste or nutrition to any other egg, and you don't get the shell served on your plate with your eggs, but still I had a yen for some pretty eggs.
We've been getting brown eggs from the Sex Links, in a small way, for about two weeks. Finally, yesterday morning, an Ameraucana Hen laid an egg! Unfortunately, she chose to lay it by the front door, on the outdoor bed for Blaze the Border Collie. Blaze was the first to spy it and promptly picked it up, brought it to Farmer Man's feet and dropped it! Splat! went my first beautiful egg. We figure Blaze thought it was a wee ball and wanted Farmer Man to throw it for him. There on the pavement was a gorgeous, deep yellow yolk and bits of a truly lovely egg: somewhere between sky blue and mint green. The picture doesn't really do it justice - it is really a lovely shade! Oh well, I don't get to eat my first pastel egg but there will be more to come!
Smart dog bringing you the egg instead of laying on it. I didn't realize the type of chicken determined the colour of the egg. I always wondered why some were brown and some were white.
ReplyDeleteExcellent - you learned something from my blog, Marguerite! And, did you know that a chicken always lays a similar egg: one chicken always lay a pointy, slim egg, the next always lay a one that's almost triangular it's so fat at one end, another Hen always has brown spots on the skinny end and so on!
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