I am loving the green eggs.

Both my lavender araucanas are laying, and yesterday there was a third green egg in the nesting box, which means that one of the black araucana crosses is also laying lovely green eggs. In fact, in the egg cupboard we only have green eggs! I was so hoping that when the 'Al-Blacks' started to lay they would lay green eggs as well. King Bertie was their dad and I'd read that they carry the egg colour of the dad, but I had no idea if this was right or not. In their case it would seem it is. Result.

These three are so small that they slip through the holes in the egg cupboard.

 It looks like we won't need to buy any eggs this year either. In the 6 years that I've been keeping chickens we've not had to buy a single egg. Some of mine seem to lay all winter. Now we don't have enough eggs to give away, like we do in the summer, but we definitely have enough for us.


This morning we had another successful Alpaca mating. True Glow came up to 'say hi' and Cocoa lay down for him this time. He also had a 'spit off' with Vienna.
In the world of alpacas, if the lady alpaca is pregnant, she doesn't want anything to do with the man alpaca and will spit at him. As a rule of thumb, you do a couple of spit offs after mating and if the lady spits both times you can fairly safely assume she's pregnant.
It's not fail safe and you can have a vet test done, but the spit off is free so we're going with that!!
Lloyd and Richard made a new boudoir for the lucky couple, and it worked a treat! The smaller the space the less the poor man has to chase the female!
I considered lighting some scented candles but they managed just fine without them.