Our newest addition to egg collecting is the blue egg hatched by our Americauna hen! Pretty!
Our newest addition to egg collecting is the blue egg hatched by our Americauna hen! Pretty![/caption]This is going to sound silly probably but… there is something magical about collecting eggs. Really. It’s like having an Easter egg hunt every day and we’re all hoping to find the golden egg which in our case is the blue egg from the Americauna chickens.
A year ago Easter, my daughter and son-in-law bought 4 chicks to use for photos for the precious grandson. The photos were cute and they enjoyed having the baby chicks. For the next month or two the baby chicks began to outgrow their small coop and so I was asked if I would be interested in having them of which I happily said, “yes!”.
In no time, my son in law built a nice mansion of a coop with 5 laying boxes and we were off and running. Before long, I picked up 20 babies from the feed store and ordered 23 online from a hatchery and boom… I was in the chicken business.
Now, the baby are coming of age to lay eggs and what fun we are having finding them every day. Hens lay about an egg a day somewhere around month 5 or 6. These are beginning to lay at month 6 and every week it seems another hen is laying. We’re beginning to collect around 13 eggs a day and the most recent one was blue- our version of the golden egg!
It may sound silly for adults to get excited about egg hunting but it’s truly almost magical and certainly a gift from God, the Creator of all things.
Josie