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The ‘new’ hens and egg news

Monday, March 26, 2007

We got the ‘new’ hens on Saturday, 3 seem to be a mix of Aracauna-ish and Rhode Island Red –though are supposedly all brown egg layers, and then we have 6 Rhode Island Reds. The man set aside 9 hens for us, not the 7 we had said, so we ended up with 2 more, [...]

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Gaining hennies

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Our hennies haven’t been laying since the end of November. I’m hoping they’ll start laying soon. Recent picture of the Wyandottes. They are looking like they are ready to lay … I have other news about eggs though. We’ve been getting eggs from the meat store a few miles up the road, which carries mostly [...]

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Hot Hennie Update

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Our hennies egg production has picked up a bit the last few weeks. I have tried to keep them in order, get counts to put up here and all that, but … last week and over the weekend I’ve not been my best, so some things slide. FWIW. The biggest thing to note though is [...]

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Moving the pen caused loss

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Yesterday I moved the Leghorn pen, to give them some fresher grass, as well as to collect the five eggs they’d laid. For some reason without a box they all lay in a different spot, so the eggs are not in a pile or even close to one another, but all spread out. The pen [...]

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Exciting day

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Today our hens laid! As far as we know, three today. It’s raining quite heavily now, frequent lightening, so we haven’t checked the hens in awhile. Hawklady, one the Leghorns, then one of the Wyandottes laid. So we have a green, white, and brown each. My favorite combination! I didn’t see who laid the brown [...]

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