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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    21 eggs since last Friday! Now we're getting the surplus built up! I discovered the girls were cleaning out the nest boxes (scratching all the hay out) and laying on the floor of the coop. It was like an Easter egg hunt trying to find all the wooden eggs. I found several real eggs in the mix...
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    Why so small?

    This is an interesting site that includes a chart of reasons for many issues with egg production, including egg size. You might want to look at it to see if there is anything you can adjust to help your chicken produce larger eggs. It seems she should be producing a medium size egg...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    Congratulations!!!!! I've been getting more eggs too. Bad thing is, though that one of them has made it a habit to lay her eggs on the poop board!!!!!!! I found two on there today. The second was obviously a new layer based on the egg size and color, so I can forgive her, but the other egg was...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    I got one a day for four days and then nothing (til 2 today but I have a sneaking suspicion that the egg on the board was done yesterday. It was too dark when I got home to check inside the coop then). I am now a believer that they do lay about an hour later each day until they skip a day. I've...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    Leslie I am in NorCal too--outside of Sacramento. And I just found TWO eggs in the coop! I have a second layer now! It's about time! But, like the first layer, this second gal deposited her first egg on the poop board, and the other girls pecked at it before I discovered it. I hope that's not a...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    What an awesome picture! Definitely this should be your jumping for joy pic when the eggs do finally arrive! I'm wondering if this breed just doesn't lay much in the winter time? Watching for your post!!!!
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!! This is so thrilling! Now the countdown until all are laying! LOL!
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    Is it just me??

    I think it depends on the breed. Some are more prolific layers than others and will continue laying through winter. What breed of chickens do you have?
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    Hen turned into a real BLEEP when she started laying

    Before you go so far as to cull her, what are the living conditions like? Is she getting adequate nutrition? there are several factors that may cause cannibalism. Look at this site for a few, and do some research about aggressive chickens...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    She managed to lay in the nest today. (Fake hobby wooden egg to the left)
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    Well, I sure hope she's just taking her time because she's been laying in a nest box now for quite some time. I really hope she won't become broody with her second egg ever!
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    I went out this morning to let the girls out and shortly after I heard one making quite a racket. I went out to listen and feed them. One stopped eating and urgently went into the coop, talking up a storm. I sat watching her a bit, and she was pacing, digging in the corner of the coop, found her...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    I went out this morning to clean off the girls' poop board and I FOUND AN EGG!!! It was laying on the board in the corner, and had cracked on its way out, but IT'S AN EGG!!!!! I was so tickled I almost didn't know what to do with myself! Here it is, next to a "medium" egg from the Farmer's...
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    Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

    Still no eggs, but I'm noticing that the squatting behavior from the one hen is becoming more prevalent.The other day I reached down and she did a full squat. But now she's squatting whenever I come around. I gave her a good pet as she squat and she kept back up to me until she shuddered and...
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    7 hens and only 1 egg a day

    I haven't seen anyone ask if they free range during the day. If so, have you checked around the yard? They may be laying somewhere that you're not aware of!
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