Today we started our second flock of chickens! So far, we have 2 different colors of Ameraucanas (the yellow one and the middle one) and we have a Welsummer (right). These breeds should provide us with a nice colorful basket of eggs this Spring. Ameraucanas lay greenish/blue eggs and the Welsummer should lay dark (almost chocolate) eggs. On Saturday we will get a few more from a different store in order to have a bigger variety of breeds. While we loved our last flock of 2 Barred Rock, 2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 Silver Laced Wyndotte and 1 Brown Leghorn, we wanted to try completely different breeds this time.
Flock #1 retired at 3.5 years old this past weekend. Their laying had REALLY slowed down to the point that we got one egg every other day, if we were lucky.
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| Coby and Chirp |
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| Remi and Tweet |
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| Our neighbor with Kelly |
