Eggs

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Eggs

These are the eggs that were laid yesterday and today. The back row, above in the carton, are from yesterday.

This is the order from the left to right: Wyandotte, Hawklady, Wyandotte, “Bantam” Australorp.

The Wyandottes eggs are a light brown, nearly creamy, but more brown than that. Hawklady’s egg is green-ish, moreso blue-green-green this time. The “Bantam” Australorps egg is a nice medium brown, much darker than the Wyandotte eggs.

Hawklady usually has laid pale sage green or sea foam green eggs, just a couple of ways to describe them. On occasion her eggs tend to be moreso blue-ish. The June 6th green egg is one such, a shade more blue than the usual green of the past.

In the box the green/blue-ish eggs aren’t displaying well, so I took a few pictures on an orange plate to have a better view of the color.

The second, or bottom, row are today’s eggs, June 7th, just two: Wyandotte, and Hawklady.

Hawklady’s egg today is even bluer, a deeper color than yesterdays. Comparing them IRL it’s apparent that the blue-ish egg from Tuesday is more green in actuality, and the egg from that hen today is definitely a lovely pale green-ish blue, pale aqua, sort of.

Both days eggs are displayed on the plate pictures below, grouped as laid by days.

Eggs

Two egg grouping is June 7th, and Four egg grouping is June 6th.

Eggs

See the Two Egg Groupings, that “green” egg is more colourful, more blue than the Four Egg Groupings “green” egg.

My Australorps haven’t laid a thing since coming home the other day. Slackers. I went out with a pen and paper today and counted the points on their single combs to differentiate between them for the first time. I never tried any such division tactic before. Now that there are no Leghorns, I am more motivated to make the Australorps distinguishable, and I do have the differances in their combs marked down, and one has a “square” point at the back so it’s easy for me to see her as an individual now that I recognize that “marking”. I also wrote down each biddies beat-up-ness of missing feathers, so that I can track them in improvements most certainly. Of them all, only Poinsettia, the GL Wyandotte with a pointy ended rose comb is fully feathered and beauteous. The two I wrote about before that are really amess are the absolute worst, with one Australorp also having missing feathers down to a large pecked skin area on the small of her back, but that’s ‘nuthin’ compared to the two little-er biddies. The other three Australorps have progressively smaller amounts of missing feathers, with the least one just a bit ruffled looking in one area.

My dearie Hawklady is just so very messed up, though she did lay an egg again today, bless her heart. It was late in the afternoon/early evening … so maybe she’ll have a day off tomorrow. I was looking at old pictures of my hennies on the computer today, and it’s strikingly horrid to see photos of Hawklady and then consider how that compares to her current condition. She looks half naked and tattered and I know I’ve written about this enough already, but I just have to keep saying it, it’s that bad, poor thing.

I put Hawklady in the dogs crate, which is not worthy of the dog anymore, and so the dog doesn’t have access to it anymore … I have it upsidedown so that the holes that are on the side are near the bottom for her. She now has room to stretch and scratch well and flap her wings if she so desires.

I did a trial of putting her in with the Wyandottes, who she grew up with. She couldn’t tolerate it, and they pecked her therefore. They weren’t that bad, it was her expecting it, therefore getting it. That’s when I decided to put her in the upside-down dog crate instead of under the “basket” as before. I do hope that when she feathers out fully that she’ll be able to go in with the Wyandottes, but I am not holding out much hope. Before they left the W’s were in with the A’s and Hawklady used to be in there, but got freaky and had been living under the ‘basket’ alone for some time. It was sort of connected to “molting” then, but she’s never been back with any others until this past couple of weeks when they all went to that other place.

Anyhow, about the eggs again. Hawklady’s eggs usually have a smooth “waxy looking” coating, a laquered look. It’s that which makes the eggs moreso “green” I think. When she has bluer eggs always they are lacking that “coating”. FWIW. She’s a mix, she has no tufts, she has a tail. She has a Wyandotte’s curvy shape, but she’s lighter framed, slighter in size. Her legs are slate blue, her pattern is GL-ish (but more like the GL look I see on some aracauna pure breds photos online, hard to describe really,) her comb though is a pea comb, but her eyes are the same color as my GL Wyandottes.

When I first got her (as a young pullet) she came with three other GL Wyandottes, and was supposed to be a GL Wyandotte. Her leg were vividly different compared to the GL’s normal “yellow” legs, comparing them overall in look I knew she was different. It also went differently as their combs grew, hers barely grew at all, that little pea comb thing 😉 So when they finally began laying eggs, there was the obvious thing, she’s got araucana blood in her, but is a mutt. She’s my favorite little biddie, and I want her to feather out fully again and be the happy clucky that she once was.

The little “Bantam” is doing alright, she’s cute, and likes me to talk to her, she converses back with me, similarish to Hawklady’s general way. I can tell she is happy on her own. She is smaller, and since she seems to be bantam sized I really wouldn’t think about putting her with any standard birds, the way her back looks and how the Australorps didn’t leave her alone for the couple of minutes she was in their pen … she went in before I knew she was smaller, it was when she got out of the box that I looked, popped my eyes open wide and wondered how in the world they ever confused themselves about which were my four Australorps. She is so much smaller than those hulking Australorps, only “looks” alot like them, not in size at all. I wonder if she and Hawklady would get on well later when they are all healed, both. Their temperments seem to be a match, if they aren’t Prima Donna’s now. :LOL:

Just to be clear about it, my Australorps are gentle giants, just get overbearing on smaller bothersome beings while they are around. The Wyandottes aren’t as big as the A’s, but are nice size standard biddies, and they are very gentle too, but can get battle-axy with screechy neurotic-seeming pen-mates. So with both the little biddies in the worst shape of all, they are definitely in Prima Donna status, with lots of special individual care and attention. Lucky them. 🙂




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