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We are not seeing any bullseyes in the eggs and I haven't seen any explicit confirmation during their shenanigans. I hope you are right and we just have a very alpha female. I'll pay closer attention next time. Thanks for the feedback!

Help! We have three Cayugas that we raised from chicks. Two seem to be laying pretty actively, we suspect the largest is a male. No curled tail feather but the voice seems lower and there seems to be lots of mating behavior in the tub. The other two's neck feathers are a thinner and worn from...

Back before they were layers~ [VIDEO]

Thank you for all the good feedback Lydia~ The heat lamp is a red bulb type, and being first year birds, we weren't expecting any eggs til spring. All the pictures of Cayuga eggs I've seen were very dark, with the literature saying the got lighter as they got older. I guess we'll see how...

Just got our first two eggs in the same nest box. We have three hens and just installed a heat lamp. Think that is triggering the winter laying. We were expecting dark eggs. Still delicious.