Todays Loot
This is actually the most eggs we have gotten in one day for a while! A couple years ago we started with three chickens and this included buttercup, bubbles, and blossom. Blossom unfortunately died as a chick from what we think was marek’s disease because she couldn’t walk. But it might have been something else bcz marek’s disease is very contagious and none of our other chickens got it. Then just this last year my little sister found bubbles dead in our chickens coop so it is just down to buttercup out of our original chickens. This last spring we got three more chicks and luckily they all survived the two ended up looking so identical so we ended up not naming them. But our fluffy yellow chicken was named Buffy. So with our older chicken molting and our other ones growing up still we were not getting many eggs util now! Buttercup is an Ameraucana chicken she she is the one who lays blue eggs!#chickens #eggs #farm #Lemon8Diary #organic #agriculture #Lemon8 #love #lemon8challenge #chicken
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I’d refer to them as “the twins” lol