Fresh Eggs and Chicken Talk - Page 1

What an amazing morning it is today. My new neighbor and I, spied each other through the evergreen boughs from our respective sides. She gave me a greeting and we started to chat about this and that. She wants to start a good sized garden. I gave her my thoughts about the sunlight and local bugs in the neighborhood.

She's the one with chickens. Someone might remember that day when they got loose and then lost? She now has a brand new rooster. The hens are not impressed with him and the top hen started hen pecking the poor guy! What a cliché, lol

A fancy rooster, a silkie, she called it. White with fluffy parts. I'll just have to do a chicken painting one of these days! Any way, she gave me two fresh, just laid eggs. This fresh egg availability is going to spoil me! She speaks with an accent which I can't quite place. Grew up on a farm from a village. 

I will have them for my lunch today. Any way, I couldn't help but think of our girlfriend, Erin. I hope she'll again post her stories, and talk about her chickens.

Have a great day, TGIF, everyone!

Good story to share, and I love fresh BROWN eggs for breaksfast...Nothing any better than a fresh laid egg not produced in a Room in a concrete building in 2 weeks...and raised in 5weeks to lay eggs and full of harmones and stuff..!!!

Bought a dozen yesterday when went to get dog food...Eggs and dog food at the Farm and Ranch store...lol

YR

I would like to raise ducks. I love the way you herd them with a bag on a stick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwu4_2ko__Q

 

ARMY OF DUCKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQkmO3Ns0Q

Yum, fresh eggs from chickens allowed to be outside and get some exercise, love they way they cluck so softly to their chicks.  Also really miss fresh cows milk.  My 2nd cousins and I used to get up early and take a mug each to "steal" some from the cows before their dad, my cousin, would bring them in to milk.  I especially loved the little Jersey cow that had the most awesome butterfat milk ever. 

Fresh eggs for the Brocculi or spinach Quiche I just made...These eggs came from Jackies special hens in California

MMMMgood

YR

Spinach Quiche made with those wonderful fresh eggs

YR

Special hens ??

LOL,  special would be the one who lays the golden eggs.

I haven't had chickens for a few years mostly because I didn't have a proper coop and the predators took their toll on them.

This year I am attempting to remedy that and build a new coop with protected covered runs.

They will still be able to free range but I will control when, the rest of the time they will be protected from the many various predators we have here.

For egg production and effeciency I choose Rhode Island Reds over other breeds I've owned in the past.

My stock is coming from two different sources for genetic diversity, so that later I can raise chicks from them and be selective of what gets bred as my flock ages.

Close enough to the house that I can throw my alarm clock away, nothing like waking up to a roosters crow.

I have also been looking at turkeys (Narragansett) which I need like a hole in the head..so far just looking.

First time I saw green tinted eggs I said " You eat those?""   so much for the city girl learning...about the birds and the chickens.../lol

YR

They are special . THE one in the middle is a Salmon Favorolle. one is an Ameraucana ,one Lakenvelder and will have to look up spelling of the others. These are my  friend Jackies' hens

The neighbors must be feeding the chickens. Rhino just wants to watch. Lol 

Yes, look at that. So polite.... With his e-collar/fence.