The race is on! We have been charting the weeks of our chickens’ ages and have marked the earliest each breed typically begins to lay eggs. So far, Blue and Raquelle our blue and black Americaunas are 1 week “overdue”. Pizza, our cream legbar could lay in a week. It’s chicken neck and chicken neck between Steve, the barred rock, and Bellatrix, the Australorp. Both breeds are known to lay as early as 16 weeks, but typically begin production at 20 weeks...which is this Thursday. Who of the 5 will lay the first egg? Sunny, our buff Orpington probably still has about a month to go. And Ginger, our fancy feather footed french wheaten Marans won’t warm her keep until almost thanksgiving. Considering we had a 6 week setback starting over with a new flock, we are SO ready to see the fruits of our labors!
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