One thing you might notice as the posts are put up on this blog, are that most of the chickens we have lay a brown, blue or green colored egg. The reason for this is because we have a friend that is very allergic to duck eggs. So what do colored chicken eggs have to do with his allergy?
Well, we also raise Muscovey ducks. Since the Muscovey has a white shelled egg, we thought one simple solution would to be have all colored egg layers in the chicken department. So, the rule is that no white eggs ever come into the kitchen. When we collect eggs, we only collect the browns, greens and blues for eating. All of the white eggs are either left in one of the many nests that are seeming to turn up everywhere on our property or collected for the new incubator we recently purchased (more about that later).
Anyway, we have a growing collection of colored egg layers that we are hoping to raise - Lavender Orpingtons, Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons, Wheaten Ameracanas, Speckled Sussex and Silver Laced Wyandottes to name just a few. We'll try to give a little write-up about each as time goes on. For now, here are a few pics of some of the new chicks.
Well, we also raise Muscovey ducks. Since the Muscovey has a white shelled egg, we thought one simple solution would to be have all colored egg layers in the chicken department. So, the rule is that no white eggs ever come into the kitchen. When we collect eggs, we only collect the browns, greens and blues for eating. All of the white eggs are either left in one of the many nests that are seeming to turn up everywhere on our property or collected for the new incubator we recently purchased (more about that later).
Anyway, we have a growing collection of colored egg layers that we are hoping to raise - Lavender Orpingtons, Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons, Wheaten Ameracanas, Speckled Sussex and Silver Laced Wyandottes to name just a few. We'll try to give a little write-up about each as time goes on. For now, here are a few pics of some of the new chicks.
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