{"id":1968,"date":"2017-10-24T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T02:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2017-10-24T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T02:51:46","slug":"wyandotte-eggs-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Wyandotte Eggs Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our laying hens are on their autumn break now; just sitting back, taking it easy and watching their new feathers grow. That\u2019s tough for our egg customers, I hope the flock finish their winter coats soon,<\/p>\n<p>We have a crew of earnest young pullets taking up some of the slack, their eggs are smaller but just as tasty as the grown hens\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2017\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ac780138-fedd-4f77-a1b1-f9ed6c259ec0.jpeg\" alt=\"AC780138-FEDD-4F77-A1B1-F9ED6C259EC0.jpeg\" width=\"1454\" height=\"814\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The oh-so-lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/2017\/10\/09\/wanting-wyandottes\/\">Wyandottes<\/a> have begun to lay too, like gangbusters so far, three eggs from three pullets most days. It\u2019s easy to tell the gold-laced gals are laying and the blue-laced gals are not, the goldies\u2019 \u00a0combs are a brilliant glowing red, while the blues\u2019 are still a soft pink.<\/p>\n\n<p>Hatched April 1, the gold-laced produced their first eggs within days of their six-month birthday, all three starting the same week, like clockwork. The two blue-laced are a few weeks younger, and from a different breeder. Hopefully they will start soon and be as good at laying as their older flockmates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/a7f2f1fb-8ae7-479f-ab2d-34bdb9b1f09b.jpeg\" alt=\"A7F2F1FB-8AE7-479F-AB2D-34BDB9B1F09B.jpeg\" width=\"1967\" height=\"1160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we wait, and give the group some time to mature. This laying cycle will last till August or September. When they are a few months older and their eggs size up, I will try some test hatches. With three lines in the pen, the chicks should be strong.<\/p>\n<p>Although I suppose I better not count my chickens before they hatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our laying hens are on their autumn break now; just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}