Gorgeous eggs!

When the Chick Daddy and I picked out the breeds of chickens that we wanted, egg color was high on the list of deciding factors.  We picked out 2 Americaunas specifically for their blue-green eggs, a Golden Comet and an Australorp for their brown eggs, and a White Leghorn for the standard, large white egg.  Well, the surprise was that our White Leghorn turned out to be a Delaware and lays brown eggs!  Ok by us!  But what wasn't ok, was that we didn't seem to be getting any of the blue eggs that I so wanted.

Until today!  Another one of the girls started laying blue eggs, and they are beautiful and large.  In fact, our brown egg layers seem to have more colorful eggs as well.  Take a look:

Our pretty eggs in a rainbow of colors!

Orange, red, green, and blue! I love them and I'm so proud of our girls!

Chicken Attack!

The chickens were chasing Oliver around the yard after they pecked him in the butt!  Poor Oliver couldn't believe it!

Oliver on the run!

New eggs

We think that Sticky Buns is the latest to give us eggs.  She's just starting so her eggs are a little funny looking!  There could be a mini-gnome inside!

the girls

The Chick Daddy and I brought five chicks home back in April for the joy of raising chickens and having fresh eggs daily.  Just recently, three of our girls started producing eggs.  Waiting excitedly for the other two! 

Left to right: Sticky Buns, Seabiscuit (the orange one on the move as usual), T-Rex, Parmesan, and Happy Feet!

This blog is to chronicle our experiences to share and for us to look back and see what mistakes we made.  We hope to get three more girls in the spring and raise them from chicks so hopefully we can perfect the process and make it easy on the new chicks.