Today is my Barnevelder's Golden Egg Day

Today Patience the Barnevelder laid her 50th egg. 

She began on 23 June with a 45g egg and they have gradually increased in size, until today they are 65g each.  The average weight of her eggs so far is just over 60g.  So that's more than 3 kg of eggs!     That's a lot of eggs for a little chicken.

Patience is my only pullet who lays in the garden.  Her five sisters all lay in the nest boxes in the coop, but Patience was the first to start laying and I don't think she knew quite what to do.  So she made her own nest in the corner of the garden against a warm brick wall and laid her egg there.  She has laid in the same spot ever since.

Patience is a lovely little pullet who is very quiet.  She rarely makes a fuss after she has laid her egg.  She just goes to her water bowl and has a big drink, then goes back to check on her egg before heading off to forage with her sisters. 

If I make the mistake of taking her egg while she is having her drink she does make a fuss when she returns to her empty nest, so I try to wait until she has checked on it before I take it away, and I always remember to thank her for her lovely, glossy, dark brown egg.

Patience will never be a show girl as her lacing is far from perfect and her legs aren't an even colour.  But she was my first pullet to start to lay and has been the most consistent layer so far, with the most beautiful eggs.

Happy Golden Egg Day, Patience! 

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Having a nap when she was just a youngster:


Searching for worms (photo taken the day before her first egg):


Her first eggs:

Well done Patience.
A bit of a favorite I'd say.

She's lovely and ever so photogenic! 

What a beautiful looking bird 
Who cares if her colours aren't quite right she's lovely and what a fabulous egg layer! You must feel very proud of her.

You must keep a lot of data to know this Lindeggs!

Barnevelders are lovely chx and one of my particular favourites.  I see what you mean with her lacing.  The double lacing is not quite there. 



Here's one of mine taken a couple of years ago who sadly died on Sunday,  Found her dead on the nestbox I think she was probably egg bound.  I had noticed a couple of days before hand she looked a bit under the weather but couldn't see anything too wrong when I examined her and put it down to moult as they seem to have started early this year.  She was 4 + years old and I'd hatched her and her sisters.  She was my first Barne to die and hither to had been the picture of health.  Just shows how quickly these things can happen.

Well done to patience and may she lay many more for you.
HF

I've got 3 little partridge wyandottes who are less than breed perfect from a breeder, but they are lovely little hens who lay well and I'm not breeding from them, so it's fine for me.

Patience is very pretty and those eggs look beautiful