Red Stars

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Nemo

Nemo

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11 Years
Jul 22, 2008
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Just wanted to post some pictures of my Red Stars...





They will be twenty weeks old on Monday. I got a dozen from MyPetChicken last September. I didn't expect them to start laying until spring... Boy, was I wrong. They surprised me in their fifteenth week. That's why I have the Rubbermaid nest boxes. Eleven Red Stars are now out-laying our sixteen two-year-old Buff Orps.

The eggs started small, and are now humongous...



I don't know how they lay such big eggs. The blue lines on the towel are half-an-inch on-center. Two eggs are way more than a handful. We'll crack open a couple of the jumbos tomorrow morning for breakfast.
 
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Hi! I have three redstars. They are great for egg laying, which is a wonderful thing, but besides that they're great birds. I got really attached to them.

You're birds are beautiful! So cute....they look all perky!
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Hmmm...looks like I'll have to go out tomorrow morning and have a little chat with my Red Star. I got her from MPC in the Sept 21st hatch and she hasn't laid a single egg yet. I got a RIR from the same hatch and she looks like she'll be ready to go any day now but the Red Star still looks to be up to a month out yet. I can't believe yours were laying at 15 weeks! Were they the Sept 21st hatch or a little earlier in the month?
 
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Same day as ours! That must make us cousins, or something. Ours got stuck at the regional PO distribution center down in Wausau (one-and-a-half hours south) one extra night, so we didn't get them until Thursday the 24th. I don't know if MPC hatches, or if they just coordinate sales... If they are just the middle-man, then our birds could have come from separate hatchers.

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I thought my wife was joking when she said she found one in the coop on January 3rd.
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PS -- The four jumbos I cooked for breakfast this morning were all double-yolkers...


And, they were delicious.

I thought about sending the picture to that British newspaper which recently had the story about the "trillion-to-one odds" six double-yolkers in a half-dozen carton.
 
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We have sixteen Buff Orps. They laid great their first year, even through winter. We'd get 10-14 eggs per day. Then, last summer, they started slowing down. By fall, we were only getting a few eggs a day. They weren't molting, yet. They came back a bit late in the fall, up to 6-ish a day, then back down early in the winter. They've picked up a bit lately, but our friends who suggested the Orps didn't tell us they only average 3 a week.

My wife's co-workers were the ones that put the chicken-bug in her ear. We have a small group of families that buy our eggs and watch our chooks when we're out of town. Production was a big factor. One day last fall, I thought, "If I wait until spring to get some new layers with the meat-birds, then they won't start laying until fall!" So, last fall, I started looking at breeds that laid more eggs. I read that Red Stars not only laid a lot, but also were wonderfully nice birds. And so far, they are.
 
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Same day as ours! That must make us cousins, or something. Ours got stuck at the regional PO distribution center down in Wausau (one-and-a-half hours south) one extra night, so we didn't get them until Thursday the 24th. I don't know if MPC hatches, or if they just coordinate sales... If they are just the middle-man, then our birds could have come from separate hatchers.

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I thought my wife was joking when she said she found one in the coop on January 3rd.
th.gif


PS -- The four jumbos I cooked for breakfast this morning were all double-yolkers...
[URL]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4334179813_2fc9576247.jpg[/URL]

And, they were delicious.

I thought about sending the picture to that British newspaper which recently had the story about the "trillion-to-one odds" six double-yolkers in a half-dozen carton.

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