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I ran away from teaching to the country to grow veggies. There are also some chooks and a pair of troublesome goats who were so much trouble they had to go! My simple green life isn't always as simple or as green as I'd like...but I keep trying!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

BABIES!

Look what was delivered today!
Eight Lavender Araucana's...unsexed.
I hope they don't all end up being roosters.



I want to keep adding to the flock to cover losses.
A dog killed one of my original hens a couple of weeks ago...
and the one Isa Brown I have left is old and not laying.



Which leaves me with seven layers at the present.
They are churning out those eggs at an average of five a day.


I saw these little lovelies on a website 
and couldn't resist the idea of green eggs (though some sites say blue).
Stay tuned for the inevitable 'Green Eggs and Ham' post!
But at two and a half weeks old, you may be waiting a while.

16 comments:

  1. Hooray! Gorgeous little ones. I had a lav araucana. But it turned out to be Mr Lavender. They are hard to tell apart at first. Out of that lot I'm sure you'll have a fair few ladies!!

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  2. Hooray! Gorgeous little ones. I had a lav araucana. But it turned out to be Mr Lavender. They are hard to tell apart at first. Out of that lot I'm sure you'll have a fair few ladies!!

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  3. ooohhh nice, I do like the look of those greenish tinged googlies...
    I am getting five eggs a day, and it is juussst a little too many for us to get through, we are selling a dozen here and there to help pay for the feed....

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  4. Its unfortunate that they are not the most attractive of chickens, but their beautiful eggs make up for it!
    YAY we are LA Buddies!!

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  5. We have 3, a lavender, 1 black and a white. They all lay blue eggs.
    You're bound to get a few hens. What will you do with the roosters though? Do you eat them?

    Barb.

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  6. Oh cute. Green eggs would be cool. Surely you will get some girls.

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  7. I saw some at the Edible Garden Show this year - they are beautiful but also fierce looking. Their eggs are just lovely though :)

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  8. Wonderful! I am sure you have a few ladies in that group.

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  9. Blue and beautiful! My treasure left years ago and I miss those eggs.I used to save them for an elderly relative who adored them.You'll have no regrets I hope unless of course they do turn out to be roosters! Good luck.

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  10. i predict you have 2 roosters there

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  11. So cute! They say 50/50 for sexes, so hopefully at least 4 will be girls, and surely not less than that, surely! Are you planning on naming them? Will you use leg bands to tell them apart?

    Good luck!

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  12. really cute Babies looking forward to that post

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  13. I have just one that lays me greenish-blue eggs now but I have two chicks growing out as well that will hopefully lay green or blue.

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  14. I hope you get all girls, were did you get them from Id love some of these hens.

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  15. Like Mrs Bok, we got one of these, but had to rehouse him.

    Disappointing. I also wanted the greeny-blue eggs. Still, we were able to keep Hazel, the Gold Wyandotte and Pudgy, the Barred Plymouth Rock, so all was not lost!

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