I have one out of four that "sing" and not every time. I have noticed when she lays a little bit bigger of an egg and it takes her a little longer is when she really carries on. It's like she is impressed with herself.
yeah I should have just ordered some black coppers instead of buying the cuckoos locally. Still love my girls and am glad they are finally laying but I now know better for the next time I add more babies to my flock.
WVduckchick said she believes they will get darker over time and then get lighter when it gets closer to winter and they slow down. So keeping my fingers crossed. I will let you know what their next few eggs look like when they lay them.
I'm not sure if I should be excited or madder than a wet hen. As of this afternoon I have all four of my older girls laying, both of my cuckoo marans started laying today but their eggs are no darker than my silver laced Wyandottes. The cuckoo marans I gave away two months ago lay dark brown...
I have heard that also but I originally got three of them and ended up having to re home one because she was so mean and aggressive and attacked my eight year old daughter. I recently talked to the woman that took her and she started laying already (of course the one I had to get rid of right)...
I checked one of my cuckoo marans pelvic bones this morning because she squats if you come within a few feet of her and I can just fit three fingers between! Chocolate colored eggs here we come!!! So excited
right under their vent/egg hole lol if you press you can feel two points. Put your fingers in between those points/pelvic bones if you can fit more than two fingers you are really close. When I checked my first she was about two and a half fingers apart she started laying within a week of me...
My girls started sq
my silver laced Wyandottes started squatting almost two months before I saw my first egg. The first started laying at 23 weeks and the second just started Sunday at 28 weeks. My marans just started squatting in the last week so I'm sure in the next month or so I will start...
finally 23 weeks one day. Yesterday morning it sounded like someone was crowing. This morning penny one of my slw was hanging out in the hen house longer than normal so I went out to check no egg. I fed and went on about my chores went back out just to check and there that BEAUTIFUL little egg...
Oh I'm so Eggcited!!! I was reading some of yalls post and decided to run out and check my girls pelvic bones. One is about two and a half fingers apart and she squatted to the ground when I went to pick her up. I couldn't catch the other one cause a storm is coming and she gets wacky when it...