Which came first?

Well in our case, the chicken came first, the chick to be exact.  But one of our chickens has finally laid an egg.  We have only had one so far, but it was so exciting to find an egg!  AND it was in the laying bins where it was supposed to be! (Update: Gennie has been consistently laying an egg every other day).

After researching the 2 types of chickens we have, I have determined that the Silver Sebright (the one that acts like a rooster and I was starting to wonder about) laid the egg.  The Welsummer should lay dark brown eggs with or without brown spots.

It looks so tiny next to our eggs from the farmers market. Hopefully soon they will both be laying eggs and these tiny little guys will add up to something!



Here is what they look like inside. Two eggs is essentially the equivalent of one full sized double yolk egg.

 

Other fun tales in the world of urban chicken raising.  We've started letting our chickens wander the yard on a daily basis, and for a while they stayed in our yard with no trouble.  Our Welsummer only has one wing, so she is flightless, but our Silver Sebright was sticking to the yard pretty well.  One day I did find her on top of the chicken run, looking in the window of the coop, and we wondered if she would try to be a little more adventurous.  And then it happened.

One evening, our neighbor knocked on our front door and told us Gennie was in his back yard.  They noticed her when they let their dogs outside and they stopped in their tracks because they'd never been able to get that close to our chickens before.  EOP went over and caught her and brought her back over.  They had to be locked up until we figured out a solution.

After searching the web and polling our chicken raising friends, we clipped one of her wings.  They only had to stay confined in their chicken run for 2 days before we clipped her, but they were so excited to get back out in the yard!  So far, we haven't had any other problems.