This morning Jean-Bob completed his ascent into roosterhood. While I was in the coop looking for eggs, he took the opportunity to do what comes naturally, upsetting one of the Reds that he chose as his victim. He didn't seem too upset about it, though.

So Jean-Bob has completed the Triple Crown; the physical characteristics, the crowing (or attempts to), and now that whole passing-on-of-genes thing.

Nothing yet from Rocky, who is 1 for 3.

When my daughter gathered the eggs yesterday, there were four and one of them was white (well, more off-white) with a rough feeling shell. The immediate thought is that somebody new is laying now (with one of the Reds suspected of laying eggs in an unauthorized area).

I don't have any white egg layers, but the egg definitely has an amateur look to it. Plus, I mentioned that someone had laid a soft shell egg a couple of weeks ago. So this could be a pullet egg from a 16 week old, and the main suspect is one of the White Rocks.

I was looking over the pullets this morning, and a side-by-side comparison of the two Rocks (they were conveniently next to each other) convinced me. One still had that skinny young-pullet look, but the other had the wide and puffed-out look to the bottom that the Reds all developed when they started to lay.

If that's the case, then more eggs for everyone.