8 week old layer!!!!!!!!!! Pics up !!!!!

[Featherland]

Those chickens look like Red Sex Links. Exactly what color are those little eggs? Are you sure there is not a wild bird hanging around laying eggs?
None of those looked mature enough to be laying.

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

either your getting pranked or u are the luckiest person on earth.

 

[txchickie]

For some reason.....I just can't believe it. So wierd!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bryan8]

They are red sex links. They were born on may tenth, which makes them 4 days over 8 weeks old. They were started on dumor chickstarter then went to dumor starter/grower. At four weeks I switched then to medicated chick starter from Agway. Last week Agway combined the chickstarter and grower to make chick start/grow which is also medicated. There going to be getting switched to my local mills start/grow unmedicated when they finish off this bag of feed. For the past week I have been mixing in small amounts of layer feed into the medicated start/grow to use up the rest of the layer feed that my bantie was on. They get lots of dandilions and cherrys also.

 

[Katy]

I think someone is playing tricks on you...or some kind of wild bird has found a way into the coop that you don't know about.....or you're trying to play a trick on all of us. None of those pullets look anywhere near mature enough to be laying any eggs. Sorry, but I don't think any of them laid those eggs.

 

[Rootball]

Cmon of course this can happen.


whenever there is one of these news stories where an 8 year old girl gets pregnant my mother always blames it on the hormones in chicken that people eat.


What you been feeding these girls?

 

[prancie]

I have no opinion on who layed the egg, but i want to offer that wild birds seem to really like my chickens and there are a lot more wild birds in my yard since the chickens have been free-ranging. Maybe one is getting in and taking advantage of the free nest.

 

[bryan8]

Read all the posts. There is no way a wildbird could get in. There in my 16x18 shed. The shed is totally inclosed with a inclosed coop inside of the shed. It is locked with a master lock that only I have a key to. My family dosent like my birds near them so they wouldn't of played a trick on me. And if a bird did get in which it couldn't, it will get killed by my pheasnts that have the whole shed. It would have to open the overhead door, open the secound door that holds in the pheasants and then get by the pheasants, open the door
to the chickens area. The chickens don't free range. I bring them out and put them in the tractor during the day. I found these eggs in the chicken coop in a nesting box.

 

[aussieheelr]

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I've noticed that wild birds hang out more too! We have quite a few meadow larks, morning doves and killdeers that have made our property their new home.
The eggs do look light brown, I guess it is possible that one layed... stranger things have happened.
Either way you're one lucky duck.

 

[Katy]

Those actually look more like pheasant eggs colorwise than chicken eggs....I'd look for a hole where one of them is getting into your inner chicken coop.