Faith is finally laying again, so we had our first four egg day in a long while. You can see the 4 differently colored eggs we get here. We get turquoise blue, olive green, light brown and dark brown. The dark brown ones belong to Faith. They are a little bit bigger than the others and have a mottled white dusting on them as well.
Each chicken will lay the same colored egg for her entire life. The green and blue ones come from the hens with Aracauna genes in them (the colored egg gene is dominant). That would be Diva and Charity. The light brown ones are from Granny, who as I posted earlier is our most prolific layer. The dark brown one is from Faith who is a penedensca mutt and they can lay extremely dark brown (almost chocolate) colored eggs.
They'll get gradually larger as they get older. Faith actually laid us a really strange egg before she molted, it was an egg inside an egg... that's right, an entire whole egg (shell and all) inside another shell. It was the craziest thing.
Anyway, that's enough about the hens. I have been checking on the tomato plants and it looks like all but two of them will survive being planted out. Two of the pink beefsteaks are flat on the ground and I don't think they'll recover. I have several replacement seedlings I can put in place of them, and I have a couple more black prince seedlings to plant out once they get a wee bit larger. Hopefully we'll have a fantastic tomato crop this year because my peas are complete no-shows and the snails have devoured most of my brassicas!
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