When I was collecting eggs from the henhouse Friday, I came upon this: the tiniest pullet egg I’ve ever seen. It was very fragile, too; the shell was paper-thin and was broken when I found it, probably from being stepped on by another chicken. Usually, pullet eggs from late-February chicks start appearing in July, but these have been so precocious I really wasn’t all that surprised to find this one on the first full day of summer. What did surprise me was its color; this is the same color as the eggs laid by the Ameraucanas, and the sign at the store said they lay brown eggs. Perhaps the green color is only one of the pigments in a brown shell, and the others will come in later? I don’t know, but I’ll keep you posted; the way things are going, we probably won’t have long to wait.
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Diary #730
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