Blue Tamago

There is this idea going around that egg yolks from bantam chickens are the same size as yolks from normal sized chickens (actually, someone on Instagram asked me to find out). I have to say, the first time we cracked our bantam's egg, we thought the yolk looked the same size as our normal laying hens egg. So just to prove this point, I did a bit of literature research. So is it true, bantam yolks are the same size as normal yolks?

Don't chicken silhouettes look awesome? And roosters with their distinctive tail make the images look amazing. I'll show you how you can make one of your own chicken using Photoshop (yes alas, I only know how through Photoshop) and a picture of your chicken.

"Pant pant. It's sooo hot!" We are sitting through this heatwave and waiting for it to pass with agonizing slowness. We've been sweltering through 4 days of over 40C with a final trump card from nature delivered to us today. Each time I look at the weather forecast, the top temperature for today has been hiked UP. It's currently going to have a top of 44C with a cool change predicted for late afternoon. We've pretty much been lying under the fan all day (we don't have A/C in the house) but for our chickens, we've hatched out new cooling strategies.

No, we didn't give the chicks away, we just moved them to a new location to help them integrate with the rest of the flock. The chicks were 4 weeks old when we decided to move them and I read that it was usually after 4 weeks that the mumma hen decides to wean them.

Even though our chickens have a secure run attached to their coop, we still lock them up into their coop at night for extra safety. Now if we didn't have a chicken door, we would have to get up, out of our cosy beds early in the morning to let them out into the run. If you don't, all you'll hear is them complaining from inside the coop (and the occasional scuffle). Cue automatic chicken door. This door can be programmed to open and close at set times, leaving us able to sleep in, or allowing us to go out at night! We bought our first automatic chicken door from Titan Incubators almost 3 years ago, and our second one about 1 year ago. I have to admit, the main reason why we bought this brand was price. Even with shipping from the UK, it was cheaper than anything available in Australia that has a controller AND a door kit on runners. We bought it off ebay from Titan incubators. The first one cost us $203.99 and the second $189.99. The price difference was due to th...

I'm on Instagram now! Follow me on...you guessed it! bluetamago You'll get to see more pics of the chickens and little chicks (they are growing up so fast!) Did you know that Buffy is really good with the chicks? He even feeds them from his beak. Such a good boy. I've got some reviews of chicken items in the making, so they will be coming up. Stay tuned and follow me :) Oh, and don't forget the chicken cuddles!

Pekins are notorious for becoming broody, so when Goldilocks decided to sit in the nest box, we gave her some eggs. We decided on Araucana eggs and 21 days later, we have 3 new little cheeping adorable bundles of fluff!