egglaying

  1. V

    Looking for first egg free ranging

    My pullets are 15 weeks old and some are starting to get bright red/bigger combs and waddles. (Mainly my cinnamon queen a couple silver laced wyandotte.) They normally free range all day, but as they get closer to time to lay their first eggs, I would like to know! Should I keep them in the...
  2. LoveyDuckies

    Ducks laying too many eggs!!

    Hey yall I’m concerned about my two ducks. I have a pekin (Dolly) and a khaki Campbell (Loretta). Loretta typically lays one egg a day and Dolly will sometimes skip a day or two. For a while they were laying soft shelled eggs so I put a dish of oyster shell by their food and mixed some into...
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  3. FeatherSwift93

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  4. K

    First egg, and hens in nesting box looking like they’re laying, but it’s night time. Also is two nesting boxes enough?

    Hello! First time chicken owner here so sorry if this seems dumb. So I have 5 hens, 16 or so weeks old. I got my first egg today, and from my Easter egger! I didn’t see it until evening because it was so hot I let them out this morning and then waited to scoop until it cooled off a bit (it...
  5. meditationcheetah

    Odd bumps & a lot of eggs!

    So, today me and my boyfriend went to collect the eggs laid by our 3 hens. We hadn’t collected eggs since Monday, yet there were 11 eggs!! I don't think that's quite abnormal, but then we look at one of the eggs and it had really weird bumps on it that we had never seen before. If anyone knows...
  6. M

    Wyandottes have taken a very extensive laying break

    Hello! I have twelve Wyandotte hens, half of them are four years old and the other half three. A year ago they stopped laying (I assume moult, winter, etc), however, when spring came around again they never really started again. We went from ten eggs a day, to two, to one every couple of days...
  7. sophi3

    Ex-broody hen not laying eggs 4 MONTHS after hatching

    Here is mama hen keeping watch over her GROWN 4 month old babies, who are fully capable of taking care of themselves. She has fully regained her pre-brooding weight for atleast 2 months, and molted after brooding, still no eggs. Am at a loss. They hatched in december and it's now beginning...
  8. Galaxy_rules

    When do silkies start laying?

    I know that it’s different with every chicken, but I was wondering when approximately silkies start laying? Mine are 4 month old and still aren’t laying 😫 I’ll post a different thread with the gender questions later this week. When did yours start laying?
  9. Everose

    Who here isn't getting eggs?

    My chickens and ducks quit laying eggs early summer of 2022, but they were under stress, molting, and on a cheap feed. So I didn't think anything of it. For months now they've all been in new spacious pens, on a layer diet, they're all young and they are all in good health. I've had no predator...
  10. nekocafe

    How to get chickens to use other nesting boxes?

    Hi! My chickens all like to use the same ONE nesting box. We have 5 boxes total and I am trying to figure out how to get the chickens to use the other ones that way they’re not stepping on each other or bickering over the ONE favorite. I have golf balls in a few of the other nesting boxes, but...
  11. Lspears218

    Silkie Broody in Mid October?

    My silkie hen is about 7 months old now and for the first time ever she is broody. My concern is that we are in mid October. We live in central Louisiana , it does get cold in the winter (40s in the day, 30s at night during the January-February months) I know it isn’t the coldest environment by...
  12. Cloverr39

    Pullet started squatting. When should i expect her to lay?

    This is my silkie/bantam brahma mix Oakley. She hatched on the April 23rd. I believe she should be around 23 or 24 weeks old. I was petting her today and she started squatting. I know that means she'll start laying soon, but how soon should I expect the first egg? A couple weeks? A month? More...
  13. Cloverr39

    When should they start laying?

    I have bantams. I think bantams start laying a bit later than standard egg laying breeds. More specifically I have a 4 month old Brahma x Silkie mix, a 2 month old frizzle Cochin and lastly, a 2 month old Silkie. All bantams. Around when should they start laying? They'll definitely be laying...
  14. Savannah_Likes_Chickens

    We know who layed the egg!

    I did the finger test where you check how far the bones are from the cloaca and we concluded it was clover! Her egg was a cream colour. and a question: is egglaying regular straight away or does it take a while to become regular? Because she hasn’t laid since that first egg.
  15. Savannah_Likes_Chickens

    It Happened!!

    This Afternoon when I got home, I did my small errands around home. The 3 pullets were out and I came out to check on them. I go back inside for a few minutes and when I go back out again, there was an egg on my back doormat. me & mum were so excited! But our question is who laid it? a) Loona...
  16. Cnjecker

    Previous Layer Not Laying but in Nesting Box

    I have a 2 year old Ameraucana who would leave me a pretty green egg each day. She hasn’t laid in about 4 days but I find her in the nesting box each day- but no egg. All of my other hens lay brown eggs so I’m not confusing her eggs for another or vice versa. I’ve had a broody hen and she’s not...
  17. TheBirdBabe

    WHAT IS GOING ON?!

    Earlier one if my hens was acting sort of sleepy. She is usually a little jerk & tries to attack me (to the extent of spurring me) or "shuffles" around me. I thought it was odd that she wasn't being rude, instead she came & sat on the arm of my chair. A bit later she moved to a tree they all...
  18. NikksChicks

    Soft-shell/rubber eggs

    Hello fellow chicken tenders! I’m at a bit of a loss and hoping to gain new information after researching online and reading similar posts here, but still unsure. I started with 31 various-breed chickens September 14, 2021 for the first time ever (a dream come true!). A few died in transit, a...
  19. C

    SUPER speckled egg, whats up?

    Hey! So some of my spring chicks finally started laying, two days in a row I have gotten a brown egg that is so speckled it is almost white! The speckles fade when I hold the egg and come back once it is left alone. The brown is quite dark under the speckles but its hard to tell. What is going...
  20. maryn7

    Pullet at POL, will hen show her the ropes?

    I've got two birds - a BR hen that will be two in April and a Light Brahma pullet. The Light Brahma's face has been reddening and she just started squatting in the last week. She's about 6-7 months, so right on schedule. When our original two girls got to POL in 2020, we did *way* too much...
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