I could hardly believe that my hens could do this and then I confused today's basket with yesterday's, which had a wooden decoy in it. I had two day's of eggs waiting on the counter to be put in cartons. I finally got those put in the fridge and then realized today's basket was still waiting...
What's more embarrassing? I found the dummy/decoy eggs in YESTERDAY'S egg basket SO we're back to YES my chickens DID lay 11 eggs instead of 10 TODAY. A hen DID in fact lay 2 eggs. I got behind three days of egg collecting and was all mixed up. I didn't want to lead anyone in thinking...
PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY!!! There was a decoy egg in the mix. ONE OF MY HENS DID NOT LAY TWO EGGS AS THOUGHT. I've never made this mistake before and the hens' eggs are now close to the same size and all are brown. I can usually tell the difference by weight--the wooden eggs weigh less. I...
Here are pics of the Isa egg that I found today. The Isas are about six mos. old. Eggs are mostly medium and we occasionally get a large to extra large. The shell was also thin in comparison to the other eggs.
Hi! My family began raising chickens early last year. First we had a mix of Welsummers and Easter eggers. After a year we added Isa Brown and two Brahma hens. We had a total of 21 hens and a rooster. The Isas were pecking the Brahmas literally to death so our option was to free range during...
My Isa brown did this today (8/21/2023) and the way you described the odd-looking one is just like what I got--strange shell texture and shape. This thread is old obviously but I was just now searching to see if hens laying two eggs the same day is "normal". I checked nests by 12:30p today and...