I'm still getting used to Tennessee weather; one day cold and the next in the 50s and 60s+. Sure beats below zero Wisconsin!Sorry I haven't been on much lately! California's weather has been crazy!
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I'm still getting used to Tennessee weather; one day cold and the next in the 50s and 60s+. Sure beats below zero Wisconsin!Sorry I haven't been on much lately! California's weather has been crazy!
This little lady is just started checking out the nest box! She's very similar in color to my hen - love these girls
My hens/pullets often act as your #2 for a day or so. It does not seem to harm the eggs any, but I count out the incubation time when the hen starts brooding full time; usually the eggs hatch. If they are clear on the 4th day candling I give them a fresh clutch. I rarely have to do this, and when I do, it is always a first time pullet that has ruined her eggs.
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Always something! My Tribbles (silkied serama) started laying a couple months ago. One of the two pullets has since brooded and raised chicks-now she is brooding again. The second pullet has laid eggs too-sometimes in a nest and other times any old where. Many of the eggs had no shell. Her diet is complete so I'm quite sure the problem is not dietary. Yesterday I found that she had gone broody which rather surprised me in that I have never had a hen go broody that did not consistently lay in one nest. Have any of you had this happen? Obviously a reproductive problem. I'm rather baffled at the soft shelled eggs and even more so that many of the eggs were just laid on the floor; even the last egg laid before going broody. Any ideas? I wonder if egg laying is a painful endeavor that makes her leave the nest in distress.
Hopefully, broodiness will give the hen's body time to repair whatever the problem is.
Also, I have a microserama who goes into a nest box almost daily, spends a great deal of time scratching out and constructing a nest, looks and acts about to lay, but does not lay any eggs (that I know of). This has been going on for months. Ideas?
Neither pullet show any kind of symptoms and appear quite healthy.
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Cute!