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They are quite pretty. Weird that the hatchery doesn't give much info. But then I just looked at it and they don't give much info on other things either. How are they doing in the heat? Or are you not in the furnace part of Oz? Bruce

It is one of those "you'll know it when you see it" things GENERALLY (*), being prey animals, they will not want you to touch them so if you put your hand over them, they run off. But when they have matured to laying age, instead of running off they will drop like a rock and look flat with...

I had the same question. Apparently they are Australian so I'm guessing FrazzledMum is as well This from ~ 3 years ago Maybe FrazzledMum can fill us in during a non frazzled moment Bruce

I wouldn't say "usually". One of my Anconas lays an egg that is pointer on the small end than the other Ancona. If it wasn't for that, I'd have no idea which laid if I only get one white egg in a day. Other than the Anconas, I would say all the girls lay the same shape as their 'sister' (I have...

Didn't even know that was possible! OK, I've heard of a pullet's first egg being small but that is ridiculous! The Barn Swallow egg I found when I took down a nest (the three that hatched and flown a couple of weeks earlier) was bigger Glad she's come up to expectation after the "trial"...

I think you'll need to be patient. The only way to "force" them I have heard is to have minimally 12 hours of light a day, ideally 14 hours. And, even if you started that today, it would take a couple of weeks to reset their "time of year" clock. Not too early on the layer since you never...

Since Alan said he has a Jersey Giant, I'm guessing that is the black bird. I gather they look a lot like Black Australorps only bigger. Congrats! I found the first egg outside the coop over by the water faucet. I still have girl(s??) that think laying on the coop floor is just fine. Is...

I would guess different hens since they were only 2 days apart and quite different in color. I think the shading can change over a period of time when they lay every day but not so likely 2 eggs in 3 days. Someone that knows more than I (that would be most people) can confirm or deny. Not in...

I wasn't aware that Black Sex Links laid purple eggs. Or is it just my computer screen? Pretty funny. Some of our girls have made it to the back porch. The cat was sitting behind the glass door once and the girls high tailed pronto and they don't even know WHY they should be afraid of the...

Yeah me too. Well I haven't lost a chicken, but all the valuable free info here. I started reading well before I ordered my first chicks in April. Probably would have eventually lost chickens to predators because I had reasoned the existing 2x4 welded wire on the horse stall was plenty. Just had...

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Congrats! You'll find a wealth of good ideas and helpful people here. Gee, I never thought of framing it and mounting it on the wall! Too late now. Bruce

I thought Marans laid dark eggs? The three darker ones are lighter than the egg my Black Australorp lays. I would call it a medium dark brown (bottom middle): But they look bigger in a small hand Bruce

That is about the same size as my Anconas have been laying. What breed laid your first egg? Bruce

Looks to be about the size my girls are laying other than the EE whose first (and only so far) was an XL and the Cubalaya which are small. But they are small birds so the biggest I expect from them once they get in the groove is Medium. It did as a link but not as a picture in the post. How...

Went out just now to let the girls out (yeah, I know, late!) and found another Cubalaya egg and: Andromeda's FIRST egg. Not only first egg but XL at that! Andddd, it is a double yolker!! Store on the left. Andromeda's beautiful blue-green XL, 2 Cubalaya and 2 Ancona Bruce

And it was a double yolker! Bruce

First Cubalaya egg: The one on the far right is a store egg. The two on the bottom and either side of the Cubalaya egg are Ancona. The one on the right is the first Large the girls have laid. Can't say the verdict is in since not all the birds are laying yet, but the 2 Anconas started 2 weeks...

Congrats! I sure hope so, the biggest I've gotten so far would likely be "Small" on the official egg grading scale. Expecting our first E.E. egg any day now. One of them started squatting last week. That would put her at 24 - 25 weeks. You did well to get an egg at 19 weeks. Bruce

As I said above, Zia started singing a week before she laid. She was also looking in various nooks and crannies in the barn that day, not her usual wandering, so I put her in the nest box. She fussed about for a while, then left. She went back in several times that day and all week, then laid 6...