Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Lesley]

I've got one!!

 

Ellie laid today - she hasn't laid since August and we've really missed the blue eggs. She was making such a racket and going in and out of the Eglu so I shut her in, set the kitchen timer and rescued her after an hour - there it was - a small, perfect, blue egg

 

Poppy is getting ready to lay again as well - blue and white eggs again!

[clare*]

How lovely Lesley

[Guest]

Photos please!!!! I would love blue eggs. When our White Star lays, her eggs are pure white (or brown if they have poo or mud on them). Anyway, after a day or so they get little blue speckles on them. Strange, huh?

[Lesley]

Very strange

 

There is a photo somewhere in the Egg Gallery - is the Egg Gallery still there? It shows an egg box with five eggs in it. I'll look later and post it here.

[The Dogmother]

I hope to have my very own blue egg layer on Saturday

 

Great news Lesley.

[Mrs Frugal]

Before you ask Lesley, NO, I haven't moved it !

 

Well done Ellie!!

[Guest]

Yeah! Hopefully Lottie will recover from the intro stress and reward us with a blue/green egg someday!

 

What you up to Clare!

 

BBx

[Nicola H]

Well done Ellie I have missed Bunty's lovely blue eggs, could you send Ellie round to have a word with her Lesley.....................Lets hope I don't have to wait too long.

[Sheilaz]

5 months, Lesley, you must be delighted. Well done, Ellie. Good news for others who are experiencing gaps in laying too.

[Lesley]

Nicola - just lock Bunty in the Eglu and don't let her out until she's laid an egg

[Lesley]

Five different coloured eggs!

[ali-s]

What a lovely colour Lesley.

 

I am going for a mixture of egg colours with my next Eglu. Hurry up Omlet

 

Meadowsweet are bringing out a blue egg laying hybrid in the Spring

[Cate in NZ]

Congratulations Lesley It must be good to be getting them all back into production again.

 

But, I want a blue egg too. I wonder if Phil will ever lay? I'm not sure that locking her in the eglu is likely to do the trick though, she'd be in there a month of sundays I think before I got an egg from her

 

I spoke to Johannes at Kew and he said it's rare for a chicken not to lay, but possibly if she wasn't fed a proper diet at the time that her egg laying equipment was being formed she might not have developed properly and in that case may never be able to lay. She is a wuss though, always bottom of the pecking order, even little Zola has overtaken her there, and the last too feed, also frightened of her own shadow, not at all tame even now, so maybe with the breeder in amongst lots of chickens she got last pickings of the grub, and didn't eat enough, or the right stuff to develop properly

[SarahJo]

Well done Ellie. .

 

I was at the adopted bunch today .... and got a double yolker for tomorrows brekky, and also 2 blue eggs, they are really pretty, but rare as they only have one cream legbar in the flock too

[Cinnamon]

It is a beautiful colour.

I wonder if there is a difference between Duck Egg Blue & Chicken Egg Blue?

[The Dogmother]

I've noticed that sometimes even the blue ones can vary in shade, from when I used to buy the Clarence Court ones.

[Cinnamon]

I bought some Duck Eggs in Waitrose last weekend & was really suprised that they were more of an opaque white than Duck Egg Blue. I guess it must depend on the Duck breed too.

They were delicious - HUGE yolks

[Lesley]

The eggs are all different blues - I was hoping for pale sky blue, but it's still exciting to have any colour blue.

[Popcorn]

Oh, I'd love some blue eggs......

[Mel (& Paul)]

We love our Blue Eggs (I particularly like the fact that when my colleagues buy some of our eggs and they get one they ask whether the yolk will be blue )

[buffie]

Congrats Lesley and guess what got back from our dog walk and picking up the stockholm tar and went to feed girls some cabbage and all of a sudden noticed something Blue Lotties laid her first egg and it's blue and they must have not pecked her to bits becasue her sore ear has healed!!

 

I gave her aconite for shock so I think that's helped her but never expected an egg after the ordeal she's had, if yours haven't laid try it. What a fab chick I have been given Best 40th pressie I could be

given

 

 

 

 

 

 

BBx

[Nicola H]

CONGRATULATIONS Buffie and well done Lottie what a lovely little blue egg..........................

[Karen & co.]

WOW it makes my various shades of brown look very boring!

 

Karen x

[Mel (& Paul)]

CONGRATULATIONS LOTTIE

[Mel (& Paul)]

Today must be a BLUE EGG-STRA SPECIAL DAY!!We had TWO Blue eggs - so now Mrs Beaton is laying