Yesterday Brandon found what we think is our chickens' first egg laying in the grass in the yard. It's a little one (store-bought egg on the left, Chard Yard egg on the right), but it's a few weeks earlier than expected, so I think they'll get bigger as the chickens get a little older. Now if we can just get them to start laying in their nest boxes instead of random places in the yard...
We started with 6 hens, then upped it to 7 when Ruthie brought a chick home from school. We're back down to 6 now because one of our poor gals got hurt and had to be put down. We ate her for dinner a few days later, but not without remorse. And actually, we're probably down to 5 hens because Ruthie's chicken (a.k.a. 'Skunk') is looking a lot like a rooster now that its tail feathers are coming in:
Based on the cryptic information I got from Ruthie, we think this bird is a cross between a barred rock and an Americauna (or Easter Egger). Too bad if he's a roo because 1) a hen of this cross would likely lay blue eggs, and 2) he's going to have to go live somewhere else.
Yesterday Brandon found what we think is our chickens' first egg laying in the grass in the yard. It's a little one (store-bought egg on the left, Chard Yard egg on the right), but it's a few weeks earlier than expected, so I think they'll get bigger as the chickens get a little older. Now if we can just get them to start laying in their nest boxes instead of random places in the yard... 
We started with 6 hens, then upped it to 7 when Ruthie brought a chick home from school. We're back down to 6 now because one of our poor gals got hurt and had to be put down. We ate her for dinner a few days later, but not without remorse. And actually, we're probably down to 5 hens because Ruthie's chicken (a.k.a. 'Skunk') is looking a lot like a rooster now that its tail feathers are coming in: 
Based on the cryptic information I got from Ruthie, we think this bird is a cross between a barred rock and an Americauna (or Easter Egger). Too bad if he's a roo because 1) a hen of this cross would likely lay blue eggs, and 2) he's going to have to go live somewhere else.
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