SURPRISE! Another full circle, this time in only 131 days! (18 weeks)

[hondo58]

On April 1, 2012 we hatched seven eggs in our home made incubator. Three eggs were from our little bantam Elkie and our EE rooster Louie. 131 days later (18 weeks) the little brown bantam has started to lay eggs. She had hid them up in the hay loft of our barn all the way into the corner where the roof meets the walls. She was hard to spot since she is little and brown and if she had not cooed while I was up there we may have never found out she was already laying. From egg to chick and back to egg in only 17 weeks....amazing.


Elkie



Louie

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Elkie's little brown bantam chick moments after hatching on April 1.



Elkie's little brown bantam chick at 5 days old

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Elkie's little brown bantam on July 31​

The little brown bantam's stash of eggs

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[hondo58]

It seems that Elkie and her chicks are all early layers. Elkie laid her first egg at 144 days, the white chick at 135 days and her brown chick at 131 days.​