Gigantic Eggs Update !!!

Recently, one or more of my hens laid gigantic eggs, within a weeks' time.

I was suspicious that at least two yolks were within each egg; and I was correct.

I finally got around to cracking the eggs; and the results are here.

 

Is This The Longest Chicken Egg, Ever ?

Today, when I went to release the hens from their nighttime 'secure area', I found a super long egg. 

I've found oversized eggs before; but I think that this one creates a record. 

I'm not sure of which one laid the egg. However, I am able to limit it down to three of the ten hens. Guess I'll be making omelet from just this one alone. When I crack it, I will notice whether two or three yolks are inside.

 

Just chickens, doing their thing.

Finding worms, bugs and things of that nature.

If they ever find mom any black-gold, we will be set.

There are 10 hens. {Though all are not pictured here.}

 

Curious Chickens !

I was in the backyard with my trusted camera, and noticed that the chickens were starring at the camera and I in a curious manner. I decided to capture the moments.

 

Just a few of my chickens - doing what chickens do.

Grazing in the Grass.

 

 

On a Saturday evening.

 

 

They are almost five months old, here.

Grass - Eating Chickens

 

 

Did you know that chickens love eating grass?

 

Two of my free - range hens paired-up for a Grass Hoot-Nanny today.

They forgot to notice that I was photographing them.

 

Not only do chickens scratch in the dirt for worms; but they enjoy the fresh greens and chlorophyll as well.

 

That ole puddy cat had an eye out for my girls. - The cat that wanted some chicken.

A little bit ago, the girls were out for their daily graze, when along came a "wise" ole puddy cat that thought that he/she might try some luck at catching a few larger sized birds. Ah ha.

Well, the girls cautiously ignored that puddy TAT and went about their business retrieving their daily supply of worms/grub.

So after a while, and perhaps after loosing faith, that puddy TAT set his/her eyes on perhaps a rabbit or some other curious interest out in the thickets.

The above photo clearly shows that the girls clearly was not afraid of the TAT/cat.

The moral of the story is: pick on someone who is afraid of you, or worms are more important than fear. LOL

Rhodie is picking fresh grass above.

After the worm/grub findings, the girls bathed, ramshacked my landscaping,

...and then conversed about that awesome partial semi cirle above them.

Hmmmnnn, could that be the moon, or a UFO !!!

Looking back to younger days -and growing older -a chicken story

Now that the girls are all grown up and have become "egg moms", I thought it would be nice to reflect back to their baby days. I felt that my blog followers, and potentially new followers would enjoy these.

They are between 2-3 weeks here below and above.

Queen is grooming herself in this photo.

They are between 12-14 weeks in the photos below.

Having a dirt bath.

Here they are feeding from my garden. They were still on the starter food mix.

This is Princess at about 12-14 weeks old.

They are 12-14 weeks in the photo below.

Chaka lays her first egg

Chaka stands near my okra in the garden.

Chaka is no longer into terrifying bags, she is now the mom of her first egg. I noticed that she constantly strayed away from the rest of her crew that day, 9-29-09; and was seemingly in her own world, and was looking for a nest. Well, by about 4:30 pm, Chaka decided to just quietly sit and release her first egg in front of the house.

I sat, watched, and waited, then picked the egg up while it was still warm. Being that she is of the Black Giant breed, I was surprised that her egg was quite smaller than Queens'.