That one blue egg represents a life time of hard work.
Henrietta.
Every 25 hours or so, a chicken delivers the goods, whether there’s a rooster by her side or not.
Henrietta was no slacker.
And the blue egg among the brown proved it.
Our beautiful white matriarch of the coop.
Ameraucana or Araucana ~ not sure which.
Perhaps she was a little of both.
We got her in the spring of 2001, as a give-a-way.
An old worn out hen from the Wolverine area.
She passed on earlier this month with no warning, no fanfare.
The previous day she had been out free-ranging for some tasty morsels with the gals and their protector, our beautiful rooster.
Although we have some new two-year olds in our flock, we will miss the ole’ gal.
And that single blue egg.
Until tomorrow ~ God willing and knowing,
Woodswoman
You always have such great pictures. I never knew how fun chickens would be and how attached you become to them!
We are currently waiting on our very first eggs. I can’t wait to find that very one. Our BO’s are 21 weeks and should be the first to lay. We have various ages going down from there so I’m not sure what kind of egg production the fall will hold but things should get ramped up in the spring. Hopefully we’ll have a little of every color (light brown, dark brown, blue/green).
Also, when you have a chance I would love to get some more info on how you handle your free-ranging rabbits.
Comment by Sandy — August 31, 2009 @ 3:57 pm