Another one of our pullets began to lay yesterday. We had some friends over, and C. and her friend came to tell me that they discovered a green egg in one of the nestboxes. I ran outside, and sure enough, there was an olive-green egg nestled in the straw!
This is really exciting because it could be the egg of our new easter-egger (who is supposed to lay blue or green eggs), OR it could be the egg of the white rock/easter-egger mix we hatched out ourselves this spring. If it is her(Sugar), she will prove wrong our theory that egg-color is a trait carried by the male. Our rooster was a white rock, which is a brown egg layer breed. So according to our theory, Sugar should lay brown eggs. This olive green was so dark, that I could tell that whichever pullet laid it had a lot of brown egg layers in her family tree. I am going to be stalking the nest box the next couple of days, because I really have a good feeling that this is Sugar's egg!
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