Remember how we thought that pointy egg was a guinea egg? Well, as the days went by and we kept getting more and more of them, they became less pointy and more blue than tan... so we asked our vet about them, and it turns out our Ameraucana has FINALLY started laying (now that she's nearly a year old)! (Sometimes first eggs are shaped funny as the girls bodies get adjusted to laying.) Hooray for no more free-loaders in the coop! (The guineas get a pass because we didn't get them to be egg-layers, just to eat the ticks!)
Our ladies are all laying! Lady (Olive Egger), Anna (Easter Egger), Chickaletta (Ameraucana - true blue), and Elsa (Porcelain Bantam).
Then we had another little mystery... a teeny tiny egg that I almost missed because it was buried in the pine shavings. Turns out, that little thing (most likely from Elsa, but it could be from one of the other girls) is affectionately called a "fart egg" (usually yolk-less little mishaps). Yes, the kids thought that was a HILARIOUS thing to call it. They do have other names though (fairy egg, wind egg, witch egg, rooster egg...)
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