Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

[DuckieTam]

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[BroosterSpringsteen]

That egg is frighteningly large! What I want to know is how the hen survived laying it?

I love this weather. I will take your CA weather any time.

Red, fingers crossed for you. Sounds like it's going to be any day now.

I have a wildlife cam outside of my coop. It's been really quiet lately. I think my usual visitors are in hibernation. In fact, the only thing I've seen in the last month are videos of my cats climbing trees, or my neighbor's chickens, who occasionally free range onto our property, and stand outside the run taunting my birds. Anyway, I've moved it inside the coop facing the nesting boxes, so I can see if anyone is showing interest. And then when I finally get more eggs I'll know who's laying.

 

[CatSol]

Oh no complaints from me... I love the California weather. It doesn't do this that often and in my area in only snows once in a blue moon. Its OK for a few days. It was kind of fun this morning.... It also gives me great appreciation for what I have and sympathy for the rest. And I love all the citrus we can raise. We have 5 young orange trees, 1 tangerine, Pamelo and 4 avocados. All young,,, we only moved in here about 3 yrs ago... but when they do grow... yum. We have other trees again all young. I probably have about 20 fruit and nut trees and maybe 40 shade/ ornamental trees. There were no trees at all here when we moved in. Lot of work but it will pay off later.

Love the wildlife came you have. Great idea to put it inside. I only have two girls big enough to lay and I can now tell there eggs apart but it would be nice when you have lots of girls.

That egg was HUGE.... right,,, I would be worried about who laid it and that she was OK. Ouch!

 

[DuckieTam]

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[debbie_nibbles]

That egg is frighteningly large! What I want to know is how the hen survived laying it?

I love this weather. I will take your CA weather any time.

Red, fingers crossed for you. Sounds like it's going to be any day now.

I have a wildlife cam outside of my coop. It's been really quiet lately. I think my usual visitors are in hibernation. In fact, the only thing I've seen in the last month are videos of my cats climbing trees, or my neighbor's chickens, who occasionally free range onto our property, and stand outside the run taunting my birds. Anyway, I've moved it inside the coop facing the nesting boxes, so I can see if anyone is showing interest. And then when I finally get more eggs I'll know who's laying.

That's what I want to do but didn't know if it was complicated or not. Are you able to watch live through the computor?

 

[debbie_nibbles]

Wow that is one big egg! I saw a video that had an egg around that size, it turned out to be an egg inside another egg. I get mega eggs a couple times a week, always double yolkers.

Get well soon wishes sent to your son Melabella. Being sick and going to school is never fun.

My girls are now 26 weeks old. I wish I had a camera to see who is actually laying the eggs. I am still only getting 9 eggs a day with an occasional 10 or 11 eggs from my 14 girls. My ducks are more consistent it seems than my chickens. Since they started laying I have gotten 1 egg a day from each of them, except the 3 days where one wanted to go broody. I need to take a camera into my coop one of these mornings, this morning I had 5 chickens all lined up each in their own nesting bucket. It was really neat to see 5 little heads sticking out looking at me.

This weather has been crazy, we got 2 days where the daily high got above freezing, now it is back down to high 20's as the high. I just hope we don't get the sub zero temps again, my girls really were not happy with the temps that cold. They stayed inside under the heat lamps most of the time, I don't blame them I would have stayed inside if I didn't have them to care for.

Here's one my Americana layed last year I wish I'd of weighed it!

 

[DuckieTam]

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[BroosterSpringsteen]

That's what I want to do but didn't know if it was complicated or not. Are you able to watch live through the computor?

No, my camera does not have wireless access, although some do. It has an SD card. I just take it out and load it into my computer. Mine is really simple to use. It can take day or infrared night videos or still shots. You can set it to only go off when motion is detected, or you can set it to take pictures or videos at intervals, or both. It takes a little practice to find the best set-up for the situation. Normally I have mine pointing into the yard along side the coop, taking motion sensored night videos only. But for this I have the camera taking a picture of the nesting box every thirty minutes.

If I could watch my nesting box live through the computer, I'd never get anything done.

 

[AuntB]

Good Morning everyone!



Happy to announce, this morning, I got another two eggs, and for the first time,,2nd layer laid her egg in the nest box. So happy that happened, yesterday after finding her second egg on the floor I was afraid she would make that a habit. Not to sound selfish here, but there are 7 other young ladies that need to get their act together! I will be so flippin happy when I am getting that many eggs a day, or even over 5. Unless I have 3 girls laying, (I swear I want to put a hen cam in there), the first girl who laid has given me an egg every single day since she started with the first on New Year's Eve! So so happy!

How is the weather SpikesChooks?

Congratulations!!!!! I've been getting more eggs too. Bad thing is, though that one of them has made it a habit to lay her eggs on the poop board!!!!!!! I found two on there today. The second was obviously a new layer based on the egg size and color, so I can forgive her, but the other egg was the third day in the row for that girl. GRRRRR. I don't know how to break them of this! The first layer is still consistently using a nest box to lay her eggs. I think I have three layers now, but let's all hope they get the memo that cracked eggs in the poop is not acceptable!

 

[Redangler]

Update Coming Soon!!!!!