One anonymous Americauna hen laid our very first chicken egg today!! It is about a size medium and is greenish turquoise in color. To celebrate, I poked holes in it, blew out the contents (which we'll put in with others for a celebratory omelet tomorrow), wrote on it with Sharpie, and coated with glossy medium! It will be proudly displayed as our $140 first egg. ;-) . . . . ;-| . . . . ;-(
I wrote, "First Hen Egg, 8/19/09" on one side and a big "#1" on the other.
We are all very egg-cited here! We now know that we have at least ONE hen that will lay eggs, and maybe the others will start laying soon. They turned 6 months old today, so we're due for some major eggage.
I integrated 4 more Americauna girls that are about 11 or 12 weeks old in with them over the week. They stay out of the way of the big mammas, but they seem to be doing OK so far.
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Eggcellent!
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