My Pet Chicken Blog

Lissa received this question about the egg song from a fellow Chickenista: “My australorp started singing her egg song again after some time not laying, and she even disappears for a certain amount of time in the backyard.  I’ve looked everywhere for her egg, and especially hard near where she emerges right before she sings, […]

Winter egg colors: do you see any differences in your flock? I keep many different chicken breeds, and get many different egg colors. I have chocolate brown, terracotta brown, medium brown, pale beige, pink, parchment, and several different colors of blue and green. It’ s a nice mix, really. Throughout most of the year, my […]

Daily Egg Hunt Recently I went out to pick the last of my string beans. There is nothing that beats the taste of fresh beans right off the vines. As I picked I noticed something under the plants that didn’t seem to be the color one would expect to see in the midst of a […]