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By: “Jake ala king” » Farm Folly

“Jake ala king” » Farm Folly — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:35:21 +0000

[...] has never laid an egg. Jake and Elwood are our two Araucana hens. Elwood only started laying November 5th, which was a month and a half late compared to all our other hens. As the months went on Lee [...]

By: robin

robin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:51:17 +0000

I will have to bring her over a blue egg. That ought to make her even more excited about eating eggs then she already is!

By: Charity

Charity — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:29:05 +0000

Layla was excited by your egg pictures. She told me that “Auntie Robin’s chickens poop eggs from their bums.” I thought it was funny.

By: robin

robin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:39:40 +0000

Lynn- YEAH! I don’t have stunted chickens after all, just normal ones. LOL I don’t really know a whole lot about the Araucana breed.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:55:19 +0000

Robin,
I have been reading other blogs & learned that other people’s Araucanas lay later than other chickens. Many months later. So yours are normal after all!
-Lynn

By: robin

robin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:49:44 +0000

Lynn- I will go try and get some pictures of them. They are the most spooky of our chickens. Why I don’t know because they were handled a lot as chicks. You might get a better feel for the breed since you have more than us. Maybe my Jake and Elwood are flukes and not all Araucanas lay later. I can’t even imagine how cool your egg cartons are going to look all filled up with your pretty colored eggs.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:40:31 +0000

Leigh- That’s true! Lee and I were really excited to get our first colored egg. Funny thing was that I sent Lee to the coop to lock the chickens up that night. I told him to recheck the nesting boxes to see if there was any late eggs. He came in with a huge grin on his face. Here I was just about convinced that Jake and Elwood were hiding their eggs from me.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:34:47 +0000

Yeah!!! Easter eggs! I read that Araucanas are called Easter Egg Chickens because of their colorful eggs. We have a bunch of them, so it’s interesting to know that they will be late layers. That’s disappointing, though, because I am so excited to start seeing eggs, and I know I’ll have to wait till next spring anyway, and even longer for the Araucanas… If you can, I’d love a pic of your chickens posted, or email me – I haven’t seen a chicken post with a pic of your birds in a while, and you know I’m all into chickens these days!! I’m curious what your Araucanas (Jake & Elwood) look like now -are they pretty birds? Are they friendly? Thanks!! Sorry for being curious! =)
~Lynn

By: Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:19:37 +0000

Satisfaction of raising your own beautiful and nutritionally superior eggs – priceless!