oh yes! I just tried to blow it and it cracked right on one of the lines in the center. I can glue it right back together,no missing peices or other cracks. It had a yolk too!
Weird.
WOW! Found this today in the nest box. Weird! My first strange egg. LOL!
Most of my ladies are molting, or just molted. So not too many eggs. But was very suprised to see this one.
Any ideas??
It is peanut shaped exactly, with wrinkles or bands in the center.
I hope it is just a...
I have never had chickens hatch before!!!!
I had not planned on helping, but I worried and thought I should check! I would hate to lose one due to my not doing something.
So far mama is doing great! She lets us see them and the 2 babies all ready born have such personalities!!!! Too...
My polish hen is sitting on eggs. 2 super cuties hatched sometime Wed morning very early, one was dry by 6:20 am the other wet. When we moved our hen and eggs the night before they had pipped and you could hear them chirping so cute!!!
Well this morning #6 egg was pipped and all day it has...
So far so good. My hen did come out for a bit of food and a roll in the dirt:) I thought maybe she had given up motherhood, but she went back in to her eggs
We did have one egg crack and she rolled one out, but the rest are doing great!!!
Some of the eggs seem lighter in weight? Is that...
I cant beleive it! My first hen, a polish top hat is broody! She is sitting on 8 eggs, none of which are hers!
I think they are fertile, as my 7 hens are in with a roo.
She is not being aggressive, or anything. She seems in a trance. I can pick her up and she does nothing.
She...
I think my other girls squat closer to the floor of the nest. I peek at them and they are almost just sitting there. This girl stands legs straight.
Maybe she is letting gravity suck the egg out! LOL!!
I love watching all the girls, they are so interested when someone else gos into lay...
Our only EE hen has just started laying
so far 2 lovely green eggs:P
But.......both have had a small impact type crack? Shells on all are nice, and no one else has had crack issues.
Is it a new layer thing?
I have lots of hay in the nest area, but they move it and lay on the wood. and of...
I am proud to announce the first egg of my only hen!!!!
Here is the expectant father waiting proudly outside the chicken house.
and here is the egg!!!!
So cool!!!!!
I was outside and saw our Roo just waiting outside the house. I looked all over for our hen, trying not to get to excited...
check out the dog on the bottom right. It is a mastiff, beagle, italian greyhound mix. But I though the roundness of the dogs head looked similar to your dog.
This is from the Feb 08 people best and worst of 2007 mag.
there is one dog that is a saint bernard, shih tzu, lab mix!!!!!
very...
It is pretty moist and looks puffy and soft. Not drippy or gooey. And it sort of opens and closes. Does this great description sound like a hen ready for eggs?
LOL!!!!!
Experienced chicken owners please give me some advice!
I have a chicken house, with nesting boxes and she knows where they...
Yes I know what the rooster does.
But I dont think she has started laying yet. I check all the time. They have just started acting like a coulple.
I just am asking if them doing it, makes her ready for egg laying. I know she would lay roo or not. But she is my first hen and reading...
She would have only just been old enough this fall, just before the cold. She is about 7 months. I think she may be starting. We would have found some eggs by now I think.
I hope we find the eggs if she does lay any. She is NOT broody at all. so no hatching.
So........now that I know they are 'doing it' how long after does the hen lay?
I only have 2 adult chickens and they free range my yard. About when should I start egg hunting?
Her waddles are Very red, and it has been warm here in NW Fl. She is totaly old enough. Please tell me there...
Just to let you know chickenranchwife , a person clicking to see your rooster, can access all your other photos.
You may want to set your account to private.
I did just the same thing last month posting pics and I had no idea people could see everything till someone told me.
Pretty boy too!