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 [...]
Last time I posted about chickens not getting busy and laying eggs a couple of more got started a day or two later. So now I’m going to see if I can have the same luck again!
Camellia here, along with her fellow Buff Orpingtons, Cindy and Beth are not laying yet. I’m really excited for [...]
Meg has started laying.
We now have 4 chickens laying. Teresa, Julian, Jessie, and Meg. Julian is actually the most reliable so far. Everyday since she started. Teresa is pretty good, 3 out of 4 days or so we find one. And Jessie, well, she’s a little unreliable. In the last 2 weeks we’ve only gotten [...]
We had heard many stories about the difference between store bought eggs and freshly laid. I generally trusted them because it seemed to be unanimous. Then Teresa laid her first egg, we hard boiled it and I couldn’t tell the difference.
Having said that understand I hadn’t had a hardboiled egg in a very long time [...]