Lazy free loaders finaly got to work!

our first egg! Tim says its light brown, irl it looks slightly pink to me. Tim found it on the floor under the roosts , so he needs to ge on building those nest box's!

Hey Nice little egg there:) Come on Tim build those boxes

well hes not just wanting to build the boxs, but bump the wall out another foot. He wasnt thinking that the orpingtons would be so darn big lol.

LOL

Oh Wow....congrats on your eggs. Are these going to be for eating?

yes they are for eating. after haveing real fresh eggs with soild white and orange yolks going back to store bought just tastes kinda icky. granted if we dont have enough eggs in a day I use store bought for baking because the difference is less noticable there.

and I have 4 hens laying now. Tim still hasnt bumped out the wall and installed the nest boxes so I found a old water bucket the horses no longer use and proped it up with bricks. all but one hen has laid every egg in there, and I suspect the egg that got laid on the floor today was a girls first egg:)

I really REALLY want some bbs(blue/black/splash) orpingtons and a buff rooster. I want to be able to hatch some chicks next spring and sell day old chicks. the nice thing about these birds is they grow large fast so surplus roosters make real nice chicken dinners. even if they do end up eaten at least they will have a great life before they die.

Tim is thinking of enclosing the garden in better and using a another small flock as weed prevention. we might buy a batch of meat chicks and raise them for that.

Congrats! :D Fresh eggs taste alot nicer!
My friend has 3 chickens, and she likes to have fresh eggs, i suppose its brilliant really lol!

up to 5 eggs a day! the orpingtons should lay around 4 eggs a week and the girls are averaging 5 so woohoo.

I'd love to have fresh eggs every day but can see Van letting me have chickens lol

welll netty urban chicken keepers often keep only two or three hens in a small coup like these.

http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=3951-2StoryCoop

http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=16313-playhouse-chicken-coop

http://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=33765-the-coop

Awww I love those....they'd look great in the back garden.

My friend has recently set up one similar in her back garden. Maybe one day when we don't have so many dogs out there to bother them.

Oh, im on the forum too. (well when i was trying to get help woth the duckies)