Sunday, November 25, 2007

A Real Easter Egg

Our new Dominiques and Araucanas have started to lay eggs. Nathan and Stephen are happy because they can begin to sell the extra eggs. I'm happy since I will now have enough eggs for our family to eat.

The Araucanas lay colored eggs. Nathan has our first colored egg below.

It is hard to see what color it is from the picture because the digital camera has a lot of trouble focusing on the shell of an egg. The egg is a lovely pastel green.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

very nice!
I thought chickens didn't lay much in the winter?

Technoprairie said...

If you fool them in thinking that the sun is still up, they will lay. Their laying is dependent on the sun. They lay best when they see 14 or 15 hours of light. So we put a lamp in their coop on a timer and give them those 15 hours of light.