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Ok.. at least 3/4 of our eggs are like this. I just pick them out. I won't lie.. they gross me out a little. It seems like it's getting less frequent now that they've been laying a couple weeks.
Thanks for the info!
Oh, and thanks for your opinions! My chickens just started laying the end of last month, and I have 4 more that might be starting in another couple weeks or so. So, sounds like they may not molt this Winter. I like the idea of putting a light in at 5AM.. I think we'll probably go that route...
This is my first year with chickens, and I'm wondering what you all do when the days start getting shorter? Do you put a light in the coop or just let them go? I was reading the article in the sticky and was wondering what most people do as far as lighting and heat? I'm in NE Ohio, if that...
I was so nervous when I first let mine out! I let them out about 4PM.. so they have about 4 hours of free ranging. Lately they've been flying out of their 10 foot high run fence earlier than that though. Grr. Anyway, yes, they do come back on their own. A couple times my son shut the door...
I have 5 hens that are of laying age, and I get 2 eggs a day. I'm not sure if it's the same 2 laying every day or if they are laying every other day, or what they're doing. I do know when I got my first egg, I didn't get one the next day, and then the next day I got two. I let them out of...
I've only had 6 eggs so far, and I didn't get to eat any of them today. But my kids seemed to really like them. I was really surprised by the color of the yolks.. like a dark orange, and they are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to crack. And once I do crack them, they're still really hard to get to...
That's a lot bigger than ours was! Yay for you! I've been checking the box obsessively today waiting to see if I get another one (first one was yesterday).
My first (and only so far) egg was like that.. took 3 times to crack. I bought brown free-range, organic, blah blah eggs from the store earlier this week, and the shells were AWFUL. They were all crumbly weird and stuck to the egg like glue. I threw the whole thing away. It almost made me...
We got our first egg yesterday from one of the Golden Sex-Links - She is almost 18 weeks.. my question is that when I cracked it this morning (holy hard shell! took 3x), there was a brownish/red little something attached to the yolk. Is that typical for one of the first eggs?