April 2010 Pullets- wanna wait with me?

[GermanChick]

One week without Internet and one week with still no eggs !!! BUT they are getting close, they are sitting in the nesting boxes and I heard the "egg-song" a couple of times.
Of course I ran as fast as I could to the coop but no eggs, just loud bawk-bawk-bawk-ing. Maybe today is the day ..... I feel lucky

 

[cpegram]

I have been getting one egg a day from 18 hens hatched April 14th for about a week now and yesterday i got a second tiny egg.....I have been hearing someone singing the egg song the past few days around 5pm.....but these eggs were waiting for me when i got home from work at 3

maybe each week another will lay....they are brown so it's either my red or black stars....some of each have the red comb and wattles....ready to go!!!....

CONGRATS TO EVERYONE GETTING THIER FIRST EGG...............and to those that haven't yet they will

the break in the weather helped mine i think.

 

[apryl]

Mine will be 20 wks tomorrow... nothing yet, still waiting.

I have a questions, do I just feed the layer food to everyone, or how do I give it to just my girl? I have 3 April birds, 2 roos and 1 pullet and then I have 4 May birds who all appear to be roos

Will the layer harm them?

Ive been trying to corner the girl and close the pen door during the day so she is the only one eating the layer, but the boys are getting smart to this!

 

[HHandbasket]

I got my birds May 29th, and they were 6 weeks old except the EE who was 10 weeks. As far as face/comb maturity and size goes, they don't look their age. Only the leghorn has really developed a red face and comb, and she's also the only one who has wattles. We have an EE (oldest bird, now at about 23 weeks), a wellie (youngest, about 18 weeks), and a leghorn, a barred rock, and a Rhode Island red that are all 19 weeks. They are all still fairly small and still look like babies in the face. I dunno what else to do. I'm starting to think I won't see any eggs until next spring. I did find out that the guy I got my birds from wasn't exactly fully forthcming about where HE got his birds, and I wonder if they were on the wrong food or something. Tthey were already on layer crumble when I got them & they were only 6 weeks old, and that's what I fed them for the first 3 weeks until the good folks here told me to put them on the right food. Could having been started off on the wrong food have slowed down their growth/maturity? They look like 14-week-old pullets. They should be laying by now. Any ideas?

 

[Lynette]

Well, I got my first egg today! Finally!!

They will be 20 weeks old in a couple of days. I thought it would be my Barred Rock that would lay the first egg, but it was my Old English Game Bantam that laid the first one. I can't believe such a tiny chicken could lay such a big egg. I was hoping my egg layers would be the first since I was never quite sure what to do with a Bantam egg. Do I eat the egg?

I am still happy that I got a perfect little egg.

 

[tcates]

Congrats!!!

 

[Yay Chicks!]

Do I eat the egg?

Absolutely! Eat and enjoy!​

 

[lazyoranch]

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Are red combs signs that pullets are about to lay? Please forgive me! I am a newbie. My Speckled Sussex were hatched on May 12th. Thanks!

 

[scootermom]

My three "snowflakes"(other wise known as mutts) were born on April 1st and have not yet laid an egg. They are SO ready tho- lots of bawking and very red combs, and the squat when I lean over to pick them up. I put plastic eggs in the nest boxes today, hopefully that will speed them up.

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

my silkie hatched on easter and still no eggs

i dont think she will lay this season! poo!