A brown one!

After months of waiting, we finally have a brown egg! We're up to three chickens laying eggs now (Prius and Spyker, our two Americaunas lay blue eggs). Our latest layer?

Evora has finally started laying eggs. She was one of the first two chickens we got, way back in September. She was 12 weeks old when we got her, which sets her at around 25 weeks. We expect Esprit, another hen exactly her age, to lay soon too.

A lovely brown egg among our blue ones

Yolk-less egg

Here's something you won't ever find at the grocery store. Taylor and I went into the coop and found a teeny tiny blue egg. We cracked it open, and all there was was albumen (white).

It still tasted delicious. It'd be pretty neat if these happened more often--- they'd be perfect for recipes that only called for whites.

Size comparison

So we think yet another one of our chickens is laying! Most of the eggs we've been getting (the top one) has been about the size of a conventional grocery store egg (the white one). However, yesterday we discovered one that was layed in a different area, that was about half the size of a regular grocery store egg. It's cool to see how our eggs compare. So far, two hens are laying, and the others are just about ready to (most are around 20 weeks old). I can't wait to find some brown eggs.

Breakfast

After waiting another day, we got another egg. We decided to cook them up into egg-in-a-holes, which were absolutely divine.

Finally!

We got the first of our chickens in late September, just in time for Seleighna's birthday. We weren't sure of most of their ages, so we didn't know when to expect eggs. This morning, something amazing happened.

It's a lovely blue green, so we know it came out of the Americaunas. Spyker is the smaller of the two, so we're relatively sure Prius was responsible for this. We're hoping the others will start laying soon as well.