So, our new year has started off with some very eggciting news. We woke up yesterday (1/12/13) to our hens making all sorts of new chicken noises and going in and out of the coop with much fanfare and excitement. We just knew something was up. Lo and behold, in the early afternoon we heard this tremendous clucking going on outside so we went running out and here is what we found:
It is all so very eggciting and tremendously fun. We feel like we have just had our first baby. Getting blue eggs is very common from the Easter Egger (Araucana) breed. Nugget was the first to lay and this morning we got another blue egg from Dumpling.
Here are the girls out roosting in their run:
Let the scrambling begin :o)
It is all so very eggciting and tremendously fun. We feel like we have just had our first baby. Getting blue eggs is very common from the Easter Egger (Araucana) breed. Nugget was the first to lay and this morning we got another blue egg from Dumpling.
Here are the girls out roosting in their run:
