Our Young Lady, Goldilocks


It's time to celebrate! Our little Goldilocks is now a young lady!
Hmm..is it me or do Pekins have this perpetual terrified or startled look?
 Anyway, I digress...
Looked into the nest box and found a little egg amongst the Leghorn and Maran eggs.



Our little girl made this little white egg. Shown above with a Leghorn egg as a comparison. So cute, so it looks like Pekins make white eggs!
 

In comparison with the Leghorn and Maran eggs. Yup, it has been very wet and rainy here lately. So much that the chicken run is a slippery mud pit. Hence the dirty eggs.

See how dirty they are? I don't usually clean them, unless there is a giant poo stuck to it.


 Her first egg came in at 39grams. In comparison, the Leghorn eggs tend to be around the 64-69gram mark. For the Marans, well Chocolate lays bigger eggs, around 64grams, whilst Fromage lays smaller eggs around 59grams. Goldilocks egg was so small that it wouldn't fit into our original egg holder! It fell through.

I guess in Japan they would be having red beans and rice to celebrate? Sekihan they call it. Have you heard of that tradition? Red rice is generally a celebration dish, and I read in a book that they celebrate a girl's menarche? Seems like a rather old tradition to celebrate, but here I am, celebrating Goldilocks first period! At 8 months of age!

I don't know about beans (she didn't like baked beans) but she loves rice!

 And corn. Especially when there are no Leghorns to bully her away from the corn.

Awww...our little pullet is now a hen. Or a young lady as I like to call her.

Congratulations little Goldilocks. You are now a young lady!

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