I AM going to contact them. Frankly, I'm just glad to get an egg at all -- and glad I didn't end up with a ROOSTER. I was beginning to seriously wonder.... 44 weeks to lay?! And, she's SO weird. I mean, we call her our "special" chick behind her back. And not in a good way
FINALLY, at 44 weeks my ameraucana started laying. But not happy because eggs look just like the olive egger - very green, not blue. (the smaller egg shown here is the ameraucana's) I had an easter egger that laid a much bluer egg than this. Bought at meyer hatchery for $20. So even though...
Never has laid, not one single egg. It's easy to tell, as I only have 5 and I know their egg colors. The run is too small to really hide, and I check everywhere. They are only in a mobile tractor when outside of the run and I check that as well. She has been squatting for several months. I...
And the olive egger quit laying for a couple of months, at the beginning of winter. But she's started back all of a sudden, bigger eggs than ever and nearly every day or every other.
believe me, I've wondered if I even have a HEN! LOL, but she's lowest on the pecking order and squats all the time. She is so beautiful, the other girls are just jealous of her!
I guess it's a winter time thing... but blue ameracauna STILL hasn't laid an egg at 40 weeks. Olive egger laid at 23 weeks. All the others are laying daily. What the heck? Is this normal? Will I have to wait until spring?