Re: Gardens, Chickens, Fairy Ring

Well, I dunno...this was my chickens first egg...and normally the
first few eggs are small.  This was a medium to large size egg.  And
they may not be as productive, which is fine with me.  I had leghorns,
and my grandmother had leghorns.  It was the only chicken she ever
raised.  Hated 'em.  They are MEAN and very aggressive.  But she lived
in the panhandle of Oklahoma where winters are fierce...and they
handle extreme weather temps really well.  Plus they are large hens,
so they make good baking hens.  Wyandotte hens are very good layers,
and can take extreme in temps.


On 9/29/09, james singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:
> It's probably a marketing thing and a production thing. As I recall the eggs
> tend to be small; hard to sell anything that's small. And the hens are
> likely not as productive as white leghorn hens.
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Catharine Carpenter wrote:
>
> > I think a fairy ring involves mushrooms. The eggs I get from a local
> farmer occasionally involve green and pink. Love them. Wonder why they
> aren't available in stores.
> > Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >
> > On Sep 29, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
> >
> >
> > > O.K., I am frantically trying to clean up all my gardens before winter
> > > hits because if I don't, I will never want to get back into them again
> > > when spring thaws everything out and I see what didn't get done!
> > > Ughhh.
> > > But anyway - yesterday I got my first blue/green chicken egg.  I
> > > squealed.  I have four Ameraucana Chickens that I bought in early
> > > spring.  They are called the "Easter Egg Chicken" because their eggs
> > > will come in a variety of colors, cream, pink, blue, green.  Last
> > > night I picked up my first one and it's a blue/green color.  Wheeeeee!
> > > Can't wait to see what color the others lay.  If they lay a blue egg,
> > > they will always lay eggs that color.  I think one of them is laying,
> > > but I can't tell because it's a cream color.  My luck, to get a
> > > colorful chicken that lays a cream colored egg.  But we'll see.  As my
> > > Wyandotte start to thin out, I will replace my chickens with the
> > > Ameraucanas.  They are really interesting little birds and have a
> > > great disposition.
> > > And last but not least...we had 18 days of rain in the last 27 days
> > > (ughhhhh) and last week I had this circle of mushrooms in my back
> > > yard.  A BIG circle.  Is that called a fairy ring?  Or is the fairy
> > > ring a dark green circle of grass?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jesse R. Bell
> > >
> > >
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