A contest for the duds!

[shadowfox]

@PirateGirl Congrats on the final girl laying!!


At 23 weeks I had my first girl lay an egg. It came from one of my Easter Eggers, Cleopatra.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Congratulations @PirateGirl and @shadowfox !!

We finally got our last layer, Holly, (the solar powered sunbather in my avatar) to actually lay IN THE NEST BOXES. She's the longest of the birds and didn't feel she could turn around in one, so she took to laying on the floor under the roosts. I had to pull a nest box divider out to give us two nest boxes and one nest "suite" (about 2ft x 1ft x 1ft)... she is now using that.

Hooray for a full-fledged flock!!

 

[PirateGirl]

@HoopyFrood Congrats! Total flock success! Now if only we could avoid things falling apart next fall when molt time comes around

 

[HoopyFrood]

@HoopyFrood Congrats! Total flock success! Now if only we could avoid things falling apart next fall when molt time comes around

Indeed! I hope to be much more of a seasoned veteran by then!

 

[katieuppi]

Finally!!! Lost one of my two 40 week old duds last week that had an abnormality with her reproductive track , but my other dud gave her first egg this week!!! Beautiful blue

 

[PirateGirl]

Hooray @katieuppi no more duds and beautiful color variety in your basket!!

 

[VBirmingham]

I think I may have a dud. I have 4 hens born 3/23/17. Penguin (Black Australorp) laid 8/1 at 18.5 weeks. Fancy (Speckled Sussex) laid 9/17 at 25.5 weeks. Cheeks (Easter Egger) laid 9/28 at 27.5 weeks. Buffy (Buff Orpington) either laid the large egg in the picture on 10/3 at 27.5 weeks or hasn't laid anything at all and that was a large egg from Penguin. Can anyone tell from the picture if that is from a Buff Orpington? I haven't seen another like it and the girls are now 43.5 weeks old. Buffy hasn't ever squatted but I did recently catch her going in to the coop during the day. Maybe she'll start laying once the days get longer?

Suspected Buffy was laying but proof when I got 4 eggs in 1 day!

 

[PirateGirl]

Suspected Buffy was laying but proof when I got 4 eggs in 1 day!

Awesome! It's so hard to be sure when the eggs are so close in size and color. I was suspicious for almost a week before I could prove one girl was laying because her eggs are virtually identical to another girl's. I still don't think I've gotten an egg from every single chicken in the same day! You have enough for an omelet there.

 

[PirateGirl]

Now that all my duds are laying, I'm trying to figure out how much they are actually laying. So I'm tracking how many eggs I get in one week on the calendar. I hope I'm not disappointed, but I never get 5 eggs in one day from 5 chickens. We'll see how this goes. Next step would be to track by bird and see who lays the most eggs in a week and who lays the least, or if I could refrain from eating eggs in a week I could just sort them by color

 

[Rainbowskyes]

Officially Dud free! I have 6 girls and yesterday got 6 eggs! So excited!