Comments on: An egg-straordinary day in my backyard

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:31:11 +0000

I am interested in the lavender eggs. My chickens lay every color imaginable. I had one large black lady who laid one very large pale lavender egg every day, including the summer months when the rest of the girls felt it was too hot.
She was alot like Agatha, and went places a girl shouldn’t go… and my dog wasn’t as gentle as yours, I now am without that lavender egg and don’t know what kind of chicken she was. I have tons of araucana and mixes thereof, and while their eggs are blue, aqua, army green, green and Kakai…. they do not lay lavender. Help please?

By: Marcy

Marcy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:07:53 +0000

Those chickens are just way too cool.

Thanks for the update, Gina!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:39:44 +0000

You know - it’s funny! I lived on a farm (with chickens) for 10 years. During that time, I used next to no eggs! (and I could have gone and found them fresh myself if I’d wanted!) But now that I live away from the farm in town, I use a lot more eggs. Figures, doesn’t it?

I enjoy hearing about your chickens. I have no interest in having my own, but the stories are fun!

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:17:40 +0000

I love the posts about the chickens! It’s like a soap opera…with feathers.

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:05:46 +0000

Cool! I’ve been looking at those metal nest boxes. I’m using two cat carriers inside a little storage shed now, though, and they work great!

By: H. Houlahan

H. Houlahan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:03:17 +0000

N-17 days until my chickies arrive! New Hampshires, Americaunas, Delawares, Orpingtons and Wyandottes — we’ll see what we like best of these. I should be getting some Guinea keets soon, too.

I’m fixing up a box stall in the barn as a chicken house for this year. I’ll post pictures when it’s done — all I have left to finish is the roost and the doors (human door into the stall, chicken door out into the yard). The former owners of the place left behind an 8-bank of metal chicken nest boxes, plenty of sawdust horse bedding, and most of a concrete lawn groom (painted lily white with blue, blue eyes, so’s he’s PC, natch), a paint-by-numbers horsie picture, and foxhunting print curtains that have added to the function / atmosphere.

I’m hoping for eggses by me birfday.

Dr. Patty, I didna know what a sabayon was. Google. Epicurious. Strawberries glazed with sabayon. OMG! Next year, when the wild strawberries in the pasture come in again …

By: Dr. Patty Khuly

Dr. Patty Khuly — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:26 +0000

I want chickens! I love your chicken stories! What will you do with all your lovely eggs? I vote for sabayon! Yum!

By: cheryl

cheryl — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:01:44 +0000

Maybe you will get lucky and get an Americuna that lays lavender eggs. There is a farmer who brings in Americuna eggs for sale at the weekly Farmer’s market.