On Saturday April 24 we had our first olive colored egg laid! I am assuming it has come from one of the November hens. There are 10 hens that hatched in November 2020. Most are lavender in color with copper trimmings, but a couple are black and one looks like an Easter Egger hen from our own farm. Now we need to see which hen is laying the olive egg! At least five of the 10 hens are now laying.
This was the hatch back in November. A total of 20 eggs hatched. 13 were BCM brown eggs, 2 olive color eggs, 1 grey egg, two blueish egg, one light brown and, one tan. One chicken died in the first week, leaving 19. Two from our farm were developing into roosters and were given away in week 21, leaving 17. The remaining chickens consist of seven roosters and 10 hens. I am trying to determine which roosters to keep of the seven. At the moment I have narrowed it down to three. Each have characteristics that I like, I just want to make sure that they are not too aggressive with humans. I have identified one that show some aggression.
13 Chocolate
2 Olive
1 Grey
2 blueish
1 tan
1 light brown
The eggs on the right are from this weeks lay. The ones on the let are as well but they are definitely from the regulars.
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