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[James H]

my familys 3 chickens blinky, gertrude and nell were out innocently playing in the garden, I was in the kitchen when i heard this noise, I rushed out into the garden to find a pile of grey feathers laying in the bottom of the garden, this really frihtened me as the feathers were the colour of my chicken blinky. (nell was chosen by my gran and gertrude chosen by my sisiter) My first thoughts were some kind of bird had snatched it, i searched around the garden about twenty times when I heard some chirps from 3 very distressed chicks! (they were chicks at the time) those 3 bantams had powered through 3 dustbin bags full of twigs and grass and had somehow managed to all squeeze into the gap about 2 inches wide behind my greenhouse! they obviously knew something wrong was going on and hid the clever little things! well 5 or so weeks on and they are all very healthy and happy

Edited September 2, 2007 by Guest

[lisa33]

I can tell my three apart as they are all different chickens and lay different coloured eggs.

 

It did take a lot of working out as they don't lay the colours I thought they would.

 

Bobby lays speckled eggs (Bobbi is white)

Rae lays brown Eggs (Rae is orange / red)

Cynthis lays whiite eggs (She is Black)

[xChicken04x]

Yep!!!

 

Lacey- very light brown with speckles

Uma- very dark brown

Spice- dark brown with speckles

Gemma- coral coloured

Mischief- pure white

Magic- light/mid brown

 

clever girls!

xx

[susanbb]

Ruby lays white eggs and Mrs Bridges brown. People get VERY excited about white eggs although they seem to prefer the brown as the albumen is of better consistensy.

 

Susan

[Christian]

Yes

 

Laverne large almost white eggs

Shirley large light brown eggs

Babs small dark eggs with speckles

 

(babs hasn't laid since Easter as she has had egg peritonitis twice, BUT today there was a perfect small dark egg with speckles Clever girl!

[Snowy]

As above, most of mine are different breeds so lay different coloured eggs. The hardest are the gingernuts but by watching them and grabbing the eggs as soon as they lay I now can tell the difference straight away. They consistently lay different shaped and shaded eggs. Glad your chooks are OK.

[urbanchick]

My two Gingernuts lay completely different eggs - one pale, slightly speckled and one larger and brown. The Pepperpot lays supermarket eggs with no distinguishing features. They all taste good though!

[beach chick]

I THINK my 2 silver sussexes consistently lay smaller eggs than my 2 bluebells. at the mo I can vaguely work out who is laying what, but when (if) we are back to 4 a day it might be more difficult...

[chelsea]

I found that the colour of the chicken had an affect on my eggs.

 

Sam who was white laid lovely white eggs

Ella who is buff laid brown eggs

 

so we always knew which was which.

[Kathy C]

Peri's are small, pale and have a distinct point.

Moet's are large, light terracota, rounded at both ends and often have faint grooves on them (like extrusion lines)

Chandon's are darkest and have freckles.

[James H]

thanks everyone for your help on the eggs but this topic is really about blinky, dosnt she deserve a mention for being so brave!

[Jules.]

Not al all.......

[xScrunchee]

thanks everyone for your help on the eggs but this topic is really about blinky, dosnt she deserve a mention for being so brave!

 

 

I thought that this was a poll asking about our hens eggs-silly me!!

[geb0205]

Yep, Freck lays "egg" shaped eggs, tho smaller as she is a bantie! Very pale off white. Speck lays eggs that look almost like ping pong balls, with white shells!

[UkButton]

Yes I can tell which of mine lay which eggs by the colour (and size) of the egg... Then again mine are two different breeds.

[Guest]

I used to be able to tell exactly which chicken laid which egg.

 

But it is getting much harder now!

 

We started with 3 chickens, then added 2, then 2 more, then 7 chicks (1 of which turned out to be a cockerel) and then another 7 hens.

 

So we now have 20 hens and 1 cockerel (who is very fond of the ladies I might add)...

 

So we should start having our own chicks soon!

 

Luckily as of yet, we have had no deaths, no foxes attacks, I haven't seen any rats, no noticeable increase in flies and no illnesses or mites etc so we have been very luckily indeed!

 

We also haven't had any major pecking order fights. This is probably partly down to the space they get to run around. The amount there is (too many to concentrate on and bully) and possibly due to the sheer mix of breeds - almost every hen is a different breed, mainly heavy breeds, with a few bantams thrown in for variety.