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post #1871 of 3116
7/23/12 at 7:38am
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Originally Posted by Flowerbh View Post

Hey Butchgood, congrats!  So does that mean I am the only one still waiting for eggs??!!!!  I guess I need to go talk to my girls, too!!!  And, it's not all that hot here..lower 90's. 

 

Unfortunately, no. I'm waiting, too. My black Australorp is 18 weeks old and has looked ready for several weeks. But, no dice. My BR and GLW are 19 weeks and appear to be enjoying a protracted childhood. Meanwhile, they're all going through organic feed ($$$) like a football team goes through pizza!  <sigh>

Owned by 2 grown offspring, 2 spoiled cats (Albert and Stanley), and 7 (correction: 10; chicken math, ya know) silly biddies: Blanche, Clara Cluck, Dorothy, Olivia, Miss Prissy, Agnes, Edwina, Eunice, Ruby and Bernice, who fill my basket with gorgeous multicolored eggs.

 

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Owned by 2 grown offspring, 2 spoiled cats (Albert and Stanley), and 7 (correction: 10; chicken math, ya know) silly biddies: Blanche, Clara Cluck, Dorothy, Olivia, Miss Prissy, Agnes, Edwina, Eunice, Ruby and Bernice, who fill my basket with gorgeous multicolored eggs.

 

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post #1872 of 3116
7/23/12 at 8:18am
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Unfortunately, no. I'm waiting, too. My black Australorp is 18 weeks old and has looked ready for several weeks. But, no dice. My BR and GLW are 19 weeks and appear to be enjoying a protracted childhood. Meanwhile, they're all going through organic feed ($$$) like a football team goes through pizza!  <sigh>

Hey, I noticed you are in the NE GA mountains!  I am in Dawsonville!  Yea, I decided I couldn't go the organic route because I feed my chickens a lot of leftovers, and we don't always eat organic.  I would love to, but it is not in our budget right now!  Well, my chickens will be 20 weeks old on Wednesday.  Good luck!

Mother to 4 wonderful children, grandmother to 4.  1 DH (39 years), 1 pug, 1 Basenji, 1 dashshund mix (notice I put my DH in that same group! hahaha)  6 EE's, 1 Buff Orphington, 1 RIR, 1 Silkie, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Brown Leghorn, 1 Polish, 1 Welsummer.  Hope to fill my basket with different colored eggs! 

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Mother to 4 wonderful children, grandmother to 4.  1 DH (39 years), 1 pug, 1 Basenji, 1 dashshund mix (notice I put my DH in that same group! hahaha)  6 EE's, 1 Buff Orphington, 1 RIR, 1 Silkie, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Brown Leghorn, 1 Polish, 1 Welsummer.  Hope to fill my basket with different colored eggs! 

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post #1873 of 3116
7/23/12 at 8:27am
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Congrats!

 

I did get 6 eggs yesterday, but I have 20 of laying age.

 

Congrats on the new eggs!!  Woohoo love seeing them!

 

 

And yuck indeed Happy Chooks, it was 103 here yesterday, and my new batch of Pencilled Palms that I'm sharing with my friends got heat stroke in their yard.  I got a frantic call at 11pm telling me that one had died and the rest just layed still in their brooders (thank go they had enough sense to bring them indoors).

 

There was much tense rushing over to their house and forcing electrolyte water on the babies, but they perked up right away, and we havn't lost any more as of this morning.  Thank god.  I've gone to heck and back to get them, I'd be devistated to lose them.

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post #1874 of 3116
7/23/12 at 10:07am

Here too, they never get out temps or forecast correct.  Hovering between 94 and 101, and I thought we moved from the heat belt!  I water down the sand in the run and under their smaller cover and they like to lay in it. 

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post #1875 of 3116
7/23/12 at 12:30pm

Sorry about everyone's heat tragedies :(  I too am still waiting, my oldest girls are 18 weeks today.  There are two or three that are lookin' good in the comb area, but I've only heard like 2 egg songs and there is no squatting going on, so I'll bet I won't see any til 20 weeks...on a funny note, this morning I heard the egg song and got all excited so I went out to see who it was. I just knew it would be a Cinnamon Queen....well, it turned out to be Buzzard Chick, the Silver laced Polish rooster!  That little booger can cluck with the best of 'em, apparently.

3 Welsummers, 8 Cinnamon Queens, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 barred rock, 1 Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, 1 leghorn/ameraucana cross, 2 RIR and 7 EE/OE chicklets, 6 rabbits, 1 mischievous housecat, one Catahoula bulldog, and one amazing husband to share it all with!  Just call me coop queen!

Life is good here on the Funny Farm ^_^

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3 Welsummers, 8 Cinnamon Queens, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 barred rock, 1 Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, 1 leghorn/ameraucana cross, 2 RIR and 7 EE/OE chicklets, 6 rabbits, 1 mischievous housecat, one Catahoula bulldog, and one amazing husband to share it all with!  Just call me coop queen!

Life is good here on the Funny Farm ^_^

Member of the Derperella club. We're all just goin' round the rooster here!

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post #1876 of 3116
7/23/12 at 1:54pm

Was nearly 20 weeks to the day for me. Today mine a 20 weeks old. So far just the one egg yesterday. None yet today...but today is not quite over with yet.fl.gif

7 Australorps, 6 Buff Orpingtons, 1 production red, 1 young bared rock roo, 1 pair of Old English Game Bantams, 4 bantam hens, 4 Freakin' cats,  (RIP Cookie) best dog ever, 1 dog sky(smartsmartsmart), and a variety of new chicks.

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7 Australorps, 6 Buff Orpingtons, 1 production red, 1 young bared rock roo, 1 pair of Old English Game Bantams, 4 bantam hens, 4 Freakin' cats,  (RIP Cookie) best dog ever, 1 dog sky(smartsmartsmart), and a variety of new chicks.

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post #1877 of 3116
7/23/12 at 1:59pm

Finally got one out of the 2 chicks i raised since March

not sure if its the BR or Australorp

It was a double yolker too....She laid another egg the next day!wee.gif

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post #1878 of 3116
7/23/12 at 4:44pm
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I swear I should have spent more time on here earlier because I laugh so much. 

 

Well, I warned the others, they better fess up like Buffy.  I hadn't left for 10 minutes and my EE started the egg song!  But it must have been and egg thought or egg fart or something.  Then Buffy did her singing and proudly ran out, so I went and got her little egg and showed them what I expect from all of them soon.

 

Is your avatar pic a Bantam Ameracauna?

 

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Hey Butchgood, congrats!  So does that mean I am the only one still waiting for eggs??!!!!  I guess I need to go talk to my girls, too!!!  And, it's not all that hot here..lower 90's. 

 

No, we are still waiting too, none of our 5 girls who are all of laying age have started yet. Hopefully soon, I'm so excited!!

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post #1879 of 3116
7/24/12 at 8:38am
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No worries Flowerbh, I am technically waiting for a first egg from my EE Biti.  We still havn't decided if we are taking her back after her turkey buddies are sent to turkey heaven (right now they're growing out on our friends' property because it's bigger).  Our friends really like the idea of colored eggs!

"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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post #1880 of 3116
7/24/12 at 10:07am

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These two are my EE they sold as an Americana, and my Buffy the Orp.  My avatar is Lacy my silver laced Wyandotte.  I don't have much imagination when it comes to chicken names lol. 

I got someone else's first little brown egg yesterday!  I think it belongs to my BR, Baby.  Buffy's egg yesterday was a whopper twice the size of her first little ones.  I didn't think they started laying bigger ones so early. 

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