7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[Pensmaster]

Around 20 weeks. One of them started earlier though.

Nice so hopefully sometime this month my three should start laying.

 

[ronott1]

Nice so hopefully sometime this month my three should start laying.

Maybe!

You may need to wait until daylight hours are longer. Let us know either here or on the Store eggs thread.

 

[Pensmaster]

Maybe!

You may need to wait until daylight hours are longer. Let us know either here or on the Store eggs thread.

Ok. Do they stop for winter as well

 

[ronott1]

Ok. Do they stop for winter as well

Not for the first winter--Mine have not stopped yet--the 5 of the laid 3 today and all 5 laid an egg yesterday.

 

[Pensmaster]

Good looking forward to a hen that will lay in winter. And you mentioned brown eggs as well. I thought they would all be white. Now i will be watching for brown.

 

[ronott1]

Good looking forward to a hen that will lay in winter. And you mentioned brown eggs as well. I thought they would all be white. Now i will be watching for brown.

 

[Penny Hen]

My hens have gone on strike since I locked every one up in the finished and weatherized coop.
Before Winterizing.



After winterizing.

 

[Lozuufy]

Nooo! So, you have him in the house. Why did they stop feeding their baby?

It was really cold the last few days and the parents couldn't fully cover him cause he's too big. So he got cold and stopped wanting to be fed. He wants to be fed now but still hasn't fully recovered from getting so cold.

 

[Pensmaster]

It was really cold the last few days and the parents couldn't fully cover him cause he's too big. So he got cold and stopped wanting to be fed. He wants to be fed now but still hasn't fully recovered from getting so cold.

Go Ratty go you can make it. e

 

[cree57i]

My hens have gone on strike since I locked every one up in the finished and weatherized coop.
Before Winterizing.



After winterizing.

Everybody has gone on strike here! Maybe it is a gloomy, wet TN thing, but out of 60 layers, I'm getting about 3 eggs/day. Have been getting 17-20+ all winter until the past 10 days????? The Isbars and BCM's and SFH's have entirely stopped. They are all in different coops and nobody seems sick. I am mystified. At least the leghorns haven't failed me. I culled 20 roosters and had NPIP testing done before this happened. I think they are seriously mad at me.

Has anybody else's chicken stopped laying in the past 2 weeks?
Looking GREAT Penny Hen. You did a lot of work. It looks like they can still get ventilation around the top in one of your pictures.