16 eggs, 3 species, 1 homemade incubator: Will it be done?

[Glitterchicks]

What color? I might take some. I love Cochins.

My cochin is my FAVORITE! She was a little brat until she was about 6 weeks old and now she thinks she's a lap dog. She hardly makes any noise and runs to us when we're outside.

 

[Kiki]

No I didn't. She hasn't laid in the 1.5+ years I've had her

That is not good.

Check this out:
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/2902/2902-1097/2902-1097_pdf.pdf

 

[Morrigan]

That is not good.

Check this out:
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/2902/2902-1097/2902-1097_pdf.pdf

I hate to say it, but I agree. In my experience, unless the chicken is very, very old, a chicken who stops laying (other than for 3 months or so while they molt or its winter), has a reproductive disorder. Sometimes they can manage for a while with a reasonable quality of life. It depends on what the underlying problem is.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

They may have lied about her age when you got her, I bought a SS when I first got hens and she never laid a single egg, she lived about 3 years longer and died of old age. She was a real sweety. I miss her.

 

[Cyprus]

Not gonna lie I didn't ask questions when I bought them.
The rooster that died yesterday had spurs that showed he was at least a year old when we bought him.
I bought two hens and the rooster. The best hen in that group died last year in late spring. She presented with fluffed up feathers and a lowered tail. She died 6 hours later despite treatment.
She was the only one who laid.
The rooster never, ever bred her or any other hen.
The remaining hen is poor quality and is permanently and inexplicably missing feathers down the front of her neck. Since I got her.
I think she was thrown in the trio because they wanted rid of her and nobody would buy her by herself.

 

[Cyprus]

 

[Kiki]

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[Conan]

Are you in Seattle? I might be going up this summer and I’d be elated to buy some Cochin eggs, they’re my favorite breed.

I'm in Port Orchard! I will give them to you I have piles of pullet eggs but they are starting to get a little bigger. Their mother is currently sitting on a dozen pheasant eggs. So far, she is the only broody one. They are mottled cochins, btw.

 

[Conan]

What color? I might take some. I love Cochins.

Mottled Bantam Cochins. They are a fun little group of bun butts.

 

[Cyprus]

Mottled Bantam Cochins. They are a fun little group of bun butts.

Oooh