It's a GIRL!

When we had the first group of chickens, we ended up not realizing that we had two roosters until it was sort of too late to make one into soup, so we ended up giving it away. It's tough - araucanas are built different from other chickens. They have rose combs that don't really start getting impressive until the rooster's 6-8 months old. Their saddle feathers (another reliable rooster difference) also take about that long to come in.

The current batch of four araucanas, the Myras, contained one whose gender was unclear. This particular group all have the classic araucana coloring (each feather has one color down the center and another color along the outside) and the normal raptor-like body, but the darkest of the bunch is a little bigger and more aggressive. Certainly not unheard-of in hens, but we had reason to suspect a Myron in the bunch.

Well, when I collected eggs on Wednesday, we got our answer: FIVE blue-green eggs. One for every araucana in our hen house, including our suspected Myron.


I put a piece of junk mail into the picture because in the past when I've taken pictures of just the eggs, people have said "They just look white." The fact of the matter is that they are demonstrably blue-green! Remember, our first araucana egg was Ralph Lauren's "creamy celery," and the rest are various colors along the "C34" spectrum in ACE Hardware colors. As you can see in the picture, they're NOT white. So, the good news is, they're all girls!