We moved Petunia, Penelope and Mildred to the hen house Saturday morning after DH processed Fugly and 5 red hens. We now have 13 chickens total...all hens. The chicken coop will stay empty until October, when we order our next batch of Cornish Cross day old chicks (meat birds). Petunia made herself right at home Saturday afternoon checking out the nesting boxes and roosting post in the hen house. Petunia and Mildred were both investigating an egg laid by one of the reds Sunday afternoon and a couple of hours later Petunia laid her first egg! It could be any day now that Penelope and Mildred lay their first egg...they are 19 weeks and most chickens start laying around 20 weeks. Petunia and Penelope are Leghorns, so they lay white eggs. Mildred will lay a brown egg, like the reds.
We moved Petunia, Penelope and Mildred to the hen house Saturday morning after DH processed Fugly and 5 red hens. We now have 13 chickens total...all hens. The chicken coop will stay empty until October, when we order our next batch of Cornish Cross day old chicks (meat birds). Petunia made herself right at home Saturday afternoon checking out the nesting boxes and roosting post in the hen house. Petunia and Mildred were both investigating an egg laid by one of the reds Sunday afternoon and a couple of hours later Petunia laid her first egg! It could be any day now that Penelope and Mildred lay their first egg...they are 19 weeks and most chickens start laying around 20 weeks. Petunia and Penelope are Leghorns, so they lay white eggs. Mildred will lay a brown egg, like the reds.
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Congrats! You need a Lucy & Ethel in the hen house...:-)
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