The Chick Camera

Aster is a Golden Campine and according to Henderson’s Breed Chart that means that:

• She’s early feathering - TRUE
• She’s late maturing - TRUE
• She lays white eggs - TRUE
• She lays Medium sized eggs - FALSE

I’m not sure if our other chickens just haven’t found their groove yet but Aster is by far laying the largest eggs we have yet. And she’s relatively small. Quite a bit smaller than Teresa and Julian, our Barred Rocks, enormously smaller than Meg, our Cochin, who’s size is likely 99% feathers but still.

If they all start to lay eggs the same size or bigger than Aster’s we’ll have some fantastic eggs. She laid her first one on Monday and we got the second yesterday - it was noticably larger than the first which had been our biggest to date.

I’ve changed around their diet some to make sure they are getting the proper nutrients and calcium (for eggs) but no hormones. We’ll see if that makes any noticable difference in egg size and production.

On a side note, I’ll be heading to the ECBBA Show in Camden SC on October 4th. I’ll be showing a couple of my Serama, though I haven’t decided which ones yet except for Valentino - although his sickle feathers haven’t come in yet. I guess I’ll just hope for the best.

Update: When I registered for the show I had to say who was going so, Valentino is going. Napoleon is going (I’m pretty sure I like him a lot more than anyone else will) and Cleopatra is going (She’s Valentinos main girl, no picture of her yet).