Here are the oldest girls in the group. They are 3 years old. Amy and Henrietta are still laying about 5 eggs a week. I try to name my chickens to help me remember their breed. But that is not always the case and we haven't name all of them yet. They kinda have to grow into their personalities to name them too.
Amy is the Americauna the brown one that looks like an eagle. She lays a light green egg. She is sooo sweet. She has tuffs and a beard that are sooo soft. I love to hold her.
Henrietta is an example of just a name that we liked and named her. She is the one in the middle. She is either a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire Red. I'm not sure what the difference is between those two. She lays a light brown almost pink egg. I think her eggs are the best for cooking/eating.
Ruby is the first chicken in the picture and is a Red Star. She used to lay a nice speckled brown egg. I absolutely loved the color of her eggs. She stopped laying eggs about a year ago but she was the one that started first...I would say about a month before the other two. She has since passed on and I will share her story in another post...stay tuned.
I did have other chickens. I started with 10 chickens for this batch. Either they didn't make it or were roosters. I bought them from a gentleman who didn't gaurantee the sex (straight run) so I got what I got. I had a couple buff orpingtons and barred rocks but they were all boys and I couldn't stand the idea of getting rid of all of them so I kept my favorite one...the orpington (wish I had a picture). He was sooo sweet...to me...but not anyone else. He would jump and try to spur other people. One day while I was in Idaho and the boys were taking care of the chickens he wound up dead... Needless to say these three little ladies are the only oldies I have left.
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