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Settling the gender debate in decisive fashion, the suspected rooster produced at least one of these gems, after much understandable squawking and pacing about the coop.
Yay! First eggs! Good girl!
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The rooster laid an egg? o_O
Isn’t that just the best? We were so excited when we got our first egg. It was better than Christmas Day.
Oh how exciting. Congrats!
Give “the rooster” my congratulations on her first eggs. May she have a long and happy life of laying!
yay for first eggs and girl chickens!
My 3 hens are just a couple weeks younger than yours. I’m looking forward to Christmas eggs! BTW, I heard a strange noise coming from the coop a few days ago. It was either a balky hen or a secret rooster in the trio!
Enjoy those eggs.
I just have to share this because your rooster dilemma reminded me of it. When I was little, my father raised chickens. We had a hen that crowed and a rooster that laid eggs. Seriously!
I bet it’s pretty freaky to be a chicken laying her first egg.
Congratulations!
Yahoo! That’s always so exciting! I’m so glad they’re all hens after all.
We had 4 hens to start, and had had them for about a year in a movable pen when a hen showed up in the field next door. She became a regular visitor, and I used to try to follow her to her hidden nest in the field. We called her Henny-Penny. After about a month, I was reasonably sure none of my neighbors were looking for her so when she came over for a bite to eat near sunset, I decided to let my ladies out of the pen for a little bit and see if she’d go back in with them. Suddenly, she crowed and mounted one of my hens! She was really a he who had lost his tail feathers (which eventually grew back). We let him join the flock and he was a true gentleman with the ladies for many years. And we learned a little more about chickens!
Woot! Well done girlies.
No chickens here, but when a friend shows up at my door with eggs, I smile real big!
Now, only if men can have babies…..
No, scratch that.
Yaaay and Hooray for first eggs !! I am kinda glad your chicken isn’t a rooster — he’d just pester the hens. Hum, that sounds oddly familiar ? Karen’s note has me quacking up !
Congrats! Let us know when you get your first double yolker!
My Main Man has been pestering me about getting some hens. I had chickens as a kid. After looking at those beauties, well…. he may have just won!
someone on one of the blogs said ”she didn’t want chickens because they are sooo much work…” Uhm, what work ? I ‘ve just raised 5 chickens from two days old and now they are 9 months old. Ya feed and water the family every day, right? So how are chickens any more “work” ? Seriously ? I’ve enjoyed having chickens. Now that they are BIG and have their own coop and run, the easy part is checking the nest every day! I love that. I never know how many eggs I will get nor which colors… mine lay tiny white eggs, beautiful green eggs, and two shades of brown eggs. I fill the feeder once per week. I clean and fill the water unit once per week. I add shred to the coop once per week. I clean it out with a rake about every other month. Work ? Naaaa. Chickens are EASY!! Since I don’t like poop every where my family would walk , sit, or play in the yard, we keep our chickens in a run or chicken yard. They are the BEST Pets because they give YOU food !! Plus, mine love to come get in my arms for a walk-about-n-petting session. Who knew chickens could like to be petted like a cat does ? LOL
This is great!!! I really want a couple of chickens. I don’t think my city allows it…but we are getting our backyard fenced in? LOL
Theresa–I was skeptical, but as it turned out the city was ok with it. Maybe they’ll surprise you. I think the tide is on the side of the backyard chicken, so maybe you could get them to agree.