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

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Oh, and that bottom left egg IS huge! I think it might be a double yolker. I only weigh them when they're exceptionally large. Do you weigh yours?

 

[nakstk]

Lots of different breeds start out chipmunk looking. It will be exciting to see what you have USVIyardbard.
This is one of my Speckled Sussex

Left to right EE & 2 Welsummers

 

[nakstk]

Oh, and that bottom left egg IS huge! I think it might be a double yolker. I only weigh them when they're exceptionally large. Do you weigh yours?

I weigh and date ever egg I get.

 

[Melabella]

Lots of different breeds start out chipmunk looking. It will be exciting to see what you have USVIyardbard.

Left to right EE & 2 Welsummers

Wow, look how similar they look! Thak you for the information and the pictures nakstk! Soooo adorable!

MB

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Lots of different breeds start out chipmunk looking. It will be exciting to see what you have USVIyardbard.

That is cool how similar they look! Cute chicks!

My BLRW were also chipmunk-looking.

 

[kacklinkelly]

Hey, I lost you all for a little while. Glad to see that so many (especially MB) have received their
long awaited first egg.

Well, my girls are now 16, 17 and 18 weeks. Youngest is RIR, 2nd is Easter Egger, 3rd is Black Australorp.

If I don't spend time with them for a day, I feel like they change overnight. I let them out today after work and
the EE and BA were very friendly. No squatting yet, but reddening up of combs and waddles on the BA and
finally starting to see the slightest bit of red on the EE's comb. Nothing for the baby - she's just adorable to me.

Don't have any up to date pix. Will get some as soon as my cell phone gets repaired. Here is one taken a few

weeks ago. Of course, as soon as the cell phone comes out, they look everywhere but at me

.

I may be pushing things but... Placed a nest box in their A frame tractor and filled it with some
filler and 3 golf balls. They have shown zero interest. A girl can still dream can't she!

 

[Redangler]

Hey Guys, I am a little worried about Lemon. I read a few things about her bare spot by her neck and some lead me to lice or mites. I tried checking her out tonight and I don't think I saw anything to be concerned with in regards to lice or mites. Upon checking her out it seems her vent may be large. Now I don't know what a normal vent looks like but when I raise her tale her vent is real visible while when I raise all the others I have to separate their feathers to see the vent area. Lemon laid her first egg on 1/13, she also laid on 1/14, 1/16 and 1/19. She has not laid since then. She is eating as usual, poop seems fine and is otherwise acting normal. Maybe as a first time chicken owner I am looking to much into this, but she is my youngest daughters favorite(obvious from my avatar) and I would hate to see something happen to her. Any thoughts would be appreciated and I can get pics if that will help.

Red

 

[nakstk]

Red if she is eating, drinking, pooping and acting normal I really wouldn't worry about her. New layers take a while for their systems to regulate. I think it looks just like she rubbed the feathers off that spot. When Greta was still young I had a big "cancer" scare with her. There was this spot on the top of her head.

As you can see it looks brown and black not at all red. There was NO blood no scratches nothing like that. Her feathers were just missing from her head and that spot was there. She acted normal. I did put Blu Kote on it just in case the other decided to pick at the spot which they did not. After asking in the forums and getting reassured that chickens sometimes get spots like this when the rub the same spot repeatedly. SO after watching her for nearly 2 hours I seen it. She would stand on top of the chick feeder and reach her head inside to eat and each time she did this she rubbed that spot on the feeder. My advice to you is to just keep an eye on Lemon and see if maybe she is reaching her head through something, like a fence or something like that. If the spot doesn't hurt her or bug her and no one else pecks at it just let her be. By the way she is an absolutely beautiful bird.

 

[Brynansmommie]

Lots of different breeds start out chipmunk looking. It will be exciting to see what you have USVIyardbard. This is one of my Speckled Sussex Left to right EE & 2 Welsummers

I am shocked by how similar they look. Wow ! I am happy to hear about all the new eggs! Yay. Any update on Lemon?

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Red if she is eating, drinking, pooping and acting normal I really wouldn't worry about her. New layers take a while for their systems to regulate. I think it looks just like she rubbed the feathers off that spot. When Greta was still young I had a big "cancer" scare with her. There was this spot on the top of her head.

As you can see it looks brown and black not at all red. There was NO blood no scratches nothing like that. Her feathers were just missing from her head and that spot was there. She acted normal. I did put Blu Kote on it just in case the other decided to pick at the spot which they did not. After asking in the forums and getting reassured that chickens sometimes get spots like this when the rub the same spot repeatedly. SO after watching her for nearly 2 hours I seen it. She would stand on top of the chick feeder and reach her head inside to eat and each time she did this she rubbed that spot on the feeder. My advice to you is to just keep an eye on Lemon and see if maybe she is reaching her head through something, like a fence or something like that. If the spot doesn't hurt her or bug her and no one else pecks at it just let her be. By the way she is an absolutely beautiful bird.

x2

I had chicken with a cut on it's comb, and it just kept coming back. I thought one of the other birds was picking on her, but then one day saw her trying to stick her head through the wire to eat some clover in the yard. It was cutting the same part of her comb every time, but she just kept doing it. Watch Lemon. It might be something really simple.