I have to admit I made a mistake...
In the post about our first eggs, I said that the chickens were laying. What I forgot is that when birds first begin to lay, their eggs are smaller: pullet eggs.
The first eggs found were about the size of a regular chicken egg... actually duck eggs! The color should've been a clue too. Our chickens are Americaunas and lay bright green eggs. The first found eggs were a blackish grayish color that appeared uneven. Here is our first actual chicken egg (left) next to a store egg (right).
More duck eggs:
The birds only laid for a short time when the weather was warmer. They stopped for the coldest days of winter, and now they're back to laying. Our neighbors report that there's one chicken egg and one duck egg per day on average.
Last fall, G and I debated incubating eggs to get more chickens but decided not to so that we wouldn't have to care for chicks over winter. Now that spring is in the air, it's time to contemplate that decision again...
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