James H Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa33 Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xChicken04x Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanbb Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanchick Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James H Posted September 2, 2007 Author Share Posted September 2, 2007 thanks everyone for your help on the eggs but this topic is really about blinky, dosnt she deserve a mention for being so brave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Not al all....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xScrunchee Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geb0205 Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UkButton Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
