This egg is yet another fine example of the quality produce we have here. It had no shell, it was just the membrane that held it together. Again with the "umbilical cord" you will notice. We must have one wonky bummed chook.
We are taking delivery of six new young chooks today. We have some old girls that need culling. They are old and a little wear worn and must go to the great chook pen in the sky.
The new hens are black. They are New Hampshire x Australorp. Our older birds are red, Lohmans. When we buy new layers we try to get a different colour so we know which birds are younger. I read once where chickens are racist. If you have all red birds and you introduce a couple of white ones they will be picked on, they look different. We always try to have a selection of colours and so I am not sure about this fact. We have red, white, mottled and red/white. There are the ones that are lower in the pecking order of course but I am not sure it is related to colour. When the black ones come we will be truly multiracial in our chook pens. What a lovely thought.
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