Someone recently said: "wow! I saw your fb status - I didn't know baby chickens lay eggs!"
Hmmm.... well, baby chickens don't lay eggs - our baby chickens have started laying ... meaning the youngest addtions to our flock.
No, they aren't chicks any more.
They've been busy growing all summer.
We brought them in to Ark Boy's preschool class when they were new-ish last spring and then we recently brought 2 back in to show the class how much they've grown. I didn't realize how big they had become until then.
This is one of the original birds - Dixie - and the top of the pecking order.
The other original bird, Lulu - she's our lazy layer and I think we should cull her but surprisingly Ren Man is not on board with culling her.
And the not-so-baby babies:
This is Dippy or O'Rien - we have two easter eggers that are identical so we can't tell them apart... we also didn't try very hard to make sure we distinguished them from chicks. They looked like chipmunks when they were chicks :)
And there's all four "babies" with Luna in the front, Soleil behind her, and the Dippy/O'Rien, and furthest back another Dippy/O'Rien.
Having chickens is the best! I can't wait to have a huge flock next year!
In the meantime Ren Man suspects Luna was the small egg layer and she is now molting so the egg production will slow down for the winter. I hear though that Orpingtons (Soleil) lay just as frequently in winter. We'll see...
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