19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

[Rhoise]

The only gals I'm still waiting on are 18 weeks today and have been squatting since 16 weeks. Come on my sweet little easter eggers, we can't wait to see those tiny blue eggs amongst the rest!

oh cool how eggciting little blues on the way!!! you do have the coolest colors I've seen yet! Someone on here had dark green eggs, I had never seen dark green chicken eggs until now, hmmm maybe someday!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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I'll have to take a new pic...we've got different blues now as well, plus a dark brown Marans egg. A dozen girlz total, 10 already laying. Will come back tomorrow with an updated pic of each of their eggs, you'll love it! I know I do...

 

[Rhoise]

It is a good time to get back into canning for me. We just pulled everything out of the room I've been referring to as the Hell Hole for the past 30 years. It is where things in this house wen to die, so that's a literal description, not a swear. We found some canned items in there that would qualify as antique. Not pretty. The pretense of this effort was to set up that room as the brooder room (instead of my office). But there will now be PLENTY of room on the shelves for canned goods, too. And the birds are almost big enough to go outside, and we aren't quite through with the room repairs ...It seems we're always a couple projects behind here at the Coop Co-op. But today I had a brain storm and figured out how to get two double nesting boxes out of one sheet of plywood using minimal cuts and producing one small rectangle of waste. I'm just waiting for Nelson to saw it ... if it works I'm a genius (okay, not a genius, but pretty proud of myself).Applesauce etc., tomorrow?

I gotta see this nest box project! Your house sounds like the one I grew up in, always a work in progress, I miss that, as funny as it sounds there was alot of love and memories in that organized caos!! In the canning class I took, the teacher had some awesome old stories, some scary ones about whole families perishing from botulism!! yikes!! don't eat the stuff you found!! Although she said they found preserved figs in egyptian tombs that were still good too LOL!

 

[RoxyBird]

Hi everyone! I'm new here and was SOOOOOOOO excited to go outside after work today with a flashlight (near dark) and find the very first pullet eggs from my very first backyard flock!! TWO of them!! They both laid in the corner of the coop in a very clean fluffy pile of shavings.




Here are the two suspects.




I have another PBR who is from the same group and is larger, but has not really had a comb/wattle growth spurt yet, nor is she squatting. She's probably next up though...

Also have 4 22wk old Americaunas. I don't think they are anywhere near laying yet though. They sure are cute at every stage, even in comparison to the other pullets. I think their sweet and playful/goofy personalities may be fooling me a bit. Hope so anyway! I can't wait to see egg color...

I also have one lone silky bantam who is around 6 months old, and 1/4 (or less) the size of the PBRs. No signs of laying, or hormones. She's very healthy looking, but she's been at maybe 1.5lbs since June. She has no comb- just a little blister where one may grow someday.

I love reading all this talk of canning/gardening on top of the chicken info. Thank you to everyone who posts here for providing such a wealth of information. Chickens are so much fun!

 

[cheeka]

RoxyBird

Congratulations on your first

2

eggs! your girls are lovely, isn't it so cool???

 

[Rhoise]

Hi everyone! I'm new here and was SOOOOOOOO excited to go outside after work today with a flashlight (near dark) and find the very first pullet eggs from my very first backyard flock!! TWO of them!! They both laid in the corner of the coop in a very clean fluffy pile of shavings.




Here are the two suspects.




I have another PBR who is from the same group and is larger, but has not really had a comb/wattle growth spurt yet, nor is she squatting. She's probably next up though...

Also have 4 22wk old Americaunas. I don't think they are anywhere near laying yet though. They sure are cute at every stage, even in comparison to the other pullets. I think their sweet and playful/goofy personalities may be fooling me a bit. Hope so anyway! I can't wait to see egg color...

I also have one lone silky bantam who is around 6 months old, and 1/4 (or less) the size of the PBRs. No signs of laying, or hormones. She's very healthy looking, but she's been at maybe 1.5lbs since June. She has no comb- just a little blister where one may grow someday.

I love reading all this talk of canning/gardening on top of the chicken info. Thank you to everyone who posts here for providing such a wealth of information. Chickens are so much fun!

Wow awesome eggs!! they are huge for pullet eggs, my PBR Gertie is my fattest hen and lays little medium sized creamy brown often double yolk eggs 5 days a week, my three sex links are my best layers and give us jumbo browns everyday, The 3 RIR's are large brown almost daily know too. You guys with the blue and green eggs have the coolest egg baskets, I don't think I've ever seen a silkie banty egg? are they white? or does it depend on the variety of chicken?
This was my Betty White's first egg hahaha see small compared to yours!!

 

[Runawaylobster]

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Thank you ! now I know the origin of that saying, more than you can shake a stick at!! I'll take all the help I can get

 

[Prareedawn]

Our Rhode Island reds and ISA browns are all 20 weeks now and no eggs. I have two whos combs tripled in size and I'm hoping they start soon! Then 2 whos combs are getting there but I still have 3 who barley even have combs at all. I'm guessing like people they all develop at their own rates. I told them they have till the end of the month and then I'm going to start up the fryer! I think they knew better.

 

[Prareedawn]

Hi everyone! I'm new here and was SOOOOOOOO excited to go outside after work today with a flashlight (near dark) and find the very first pullet eggs from my very first backyard flock!! TWO of them!! They both laid in the corner of the coop in a very clean fluffy pile of shavings.




Here are the two suspects.




I have another PBR who is from the same group and is larger, but has not really had a comb/wattle growth spurt yet, nor is she squatting. She's probably next up though...

Also have 4 22wk old Americaunas. I don't think they are anywhere near laying yet though. They sure are cute at every stage, even in comparison to the other pullets. I think their sweet and playful/goofy personalities may be fooling me a bit. Hope so anyway! I can't wait to see egg color...

I also have one lone silky bantam who is around 6 months old, and 1/4 (or less) the size of the PBRs. No signs of laying, or hormones. She's very healthy looking, but she's been at maybe 1.5lbs since June. She has no comb- just a little blister where one may grow someday.

I love reading all this talk of canning/gardening on top of the chicken info. Thank you to everyone who posts here for providing such a wealth of information. Chickens are so much fun!

wow thats awesome Those are good sized eggs! Congrats! I'm expecting like jelly bean sized ones at first so I wont be disappointed!

 

[SophieL]

The only gals I'm still waiting on are 18 weeks today and have been squatting since 16 weeks. Come on my sweet little easter eggers, we can't wait to see those tiny blue eggs amongst the rest!

My easter eggers are 26 weeks as of today and still haven't laid an egg!!! My GCs are laying regularly though, thankfully!