Chicken eggs come in all sorts of colors aside from the typical brown or white you see in the grocery store. There are 6 bantam (miniature) hens in the farmyard who lay 6 different colored eggs! To help other keepers out, I took a photo of all the eggs together (above) and one of the three white eggs (below) Can you spot the differences? Here are our farmyard ladies, in the same order as the eggs in the first photoRead more
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Meet the New Farmyard Additions
If you haven’t visited us in the last year, you haven’t yet met the 11 new members of the farmyard! Dusty and Dallas, two miniature Hereford bulls, moved into the cattle yard where Max and Chummix once lived. Fern, Charlotte, Wren, Corky, Ducky, and Beatrice now call Brooklyn and Bronx’s former exhibit home. Bill, Charlie, and Percy arrived to fill the shoes of Rocky, Patches, and Mona in the goat yard with Lightning and Gypsy. All of our new additions are fairly young; ranging inRead more