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

[PoultryGirly]

31 weeks and STILL waiting!!!!! >.<

Wow! They should lay any second! Are you sure they aren't eating their eggs?

 

[7 Biddies]

AHAHAHAHHAHA!!! ME TOO Maybe we should start a 12 step program huh Nelson?

I just hope they don't take out a restraining order against me.

 

[LakeBird]

This is just meant as a funny story, but we received our three naked neck pullets not knowing exactly how old they were. After two months they had developed their combs and started making nests, so we knew it was going to be any day. Well as I do, I was sitting in the coop with my wine spritzer and book, reading. I wasn't paying attention and before I knew it, one of the girls got a gulp of the wine-two days later -our first egg!!

So what I am hearing is wine = eggs?

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Maybe we should start a 12 step program huh Nelson?

Please! He's trying to explain to me why we need 20 more chicks in September, a bunch of heritage turkeys, and that Red Star rooster getting kicked out of town my sister just messaged me about. Help!

 

[Rhoise]

Please! He's trying to explain to me why we need 20 more chicks in September, a bunch of heritage turkeys, and that Red Star rooster getting kicked out of town my sister just messaged me about. Help!

That would be "Chickanon" for you......Chickanonymus for us! Well you may qualify for both. All you need is an honest desire to stop stalking laying hens on the nest and or the desire to stop buying chickens!

 

[fuquay nc girl]

That is a funny story and why am I not surprised! I wish there was room in our run for a chair as I would be doing the same thing.

 

[fuquay nc girl]

My girls have 3 more days to lay an egg before I'll be out of town for a few days. I will not be happy if someone else finds that first egg! Please send egg prayers my way.

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

Aaaand here's our first egg. It wasn't there at 7am, but it was there at 12:30pm as if by magic.

The egg was laid by Two-fry, a 25 week old RIR. It's beautiful - the best first egg I have ever seen out of all the.... one... I have seen

I've noticed all four (the other three are five weeks younger) are a lot friendlier these days. They've gained confidence, and they're not skittish like when they were chicks. They'll now come right up and hang out with me and see if I have any treats for them. If I don't, they'll stick around and let me stroke their backs, then wander off when they see a juicy bug.

My one tiny concern is that I have them all on layer pellets, but they hardly eat any of it - they free-range from dawn to dusk (it's a relatively safe, closed in larger yard in suburbia) and get a good fill of seeds, bugs and various fruit and veggies I throw out for them. You should see them guzzle down cantaloupe seeds! Anyhow, they like the occasional handful of scratch but they show little interest in the layer pellets.

So, with this, we now graduate from being egg buyers to egg growers.

Congrats on your first egg!! As far as the feeding situation, I would be happy they free range more than just stick to their layer pellets. If they have a large area to forage in like yours, extra calcium should not be hard for them to come by. It's in the bugs they eat and there are also calcium deposits in the soil they peck in and the grit rocks they find to swallow probably have trace amounts as well, so I wouldn't worry about them getting too little Calcium. If they need the feed, they will eat it, but sounds like you are going to be growers of fine and extra tasty eggs!

 

[Rhoise]

My girls have 3 more days to lay an egg before I'll be out of town for a few days. I will not be happy if someone else finds that first egg! Please send egg prayers my way.

Will do!!

 

[Nelson-90]

AHAHAHAHHAHA!!! ME TOO Maybe we should start a 12 step program huh Nelson?

yeah we have to come up with something