3 from 7 all week. ( my eighth is broody ) not sure what's going on, they are out running around, they get the best feed and treats. There holding out lol
well if was the case then those people hatching eggs from the grocery stores would not be able to :) many threads here about hatching out fertile store bought eggs. ( whole foods I believe) it's worth a try, some ( 4 ) were sitting on the eggs when she took them and put them in a ag for me, the...
rhodeisland reds are awesome egg layers, buff orphingtons ar good until.... They go broody lol. Yep fast and furious each one of my buff orphingtons went broody. Lasting weeks. So now I just get fertile eggs from people around here and throw the, under my girls, getting new chicks they raise and...
my buff orphington is also broody again, I set some eggs under her today, but they were fertilized and set in the fridgerator , hope they hatch. She really wants to e a mommy again lol. Oh and I got 4 out of 8 eggs today, but the day is young .
five eggs from 2 girls ? You must have missed eggs, there is no way a chicken will lay 3 eggs and two is pretty much unheard of. Someone playing a trck on you ?
you said you got 7/7 today but you only have 4 chickens on your chart. And it shows inara with a ? Why do you have a chart of 4 if you have 7 ? Or am I reading it wrong?
they will lay for a few years very well, then slow down after the second or third year. , mine are two years old( 3 are) and still lay almost every day. You got a few good years left, and then they slow down a bit. :)
Not all marans lay dark eggs, she looks like a mix. And my maran lays about 3 days a week, and is always the first to stop laying in fall and last to lay in spring lol. Marans are to me not the best layer.
We got 8/8 today and yesterday, it was a good day. We seem to think a lot of protein...
When I first wanted chickens I thought , wow 3 eggs a day from a chicken, that's all we need and three chickens are enough, then I bought five as I figured if we get three, the extra 2 will be icing on the cake.... That was the first year, we got 2/3 eggs at a time out of five girls and then 2...