April 2017 chicks, who will lay first contest...

Treerooted · Sep 30, 2017

5/13 starting to pick up...

Magnolia7330 · Sep 30, 2017

Still waiting for our black australorp and buckeye to lay. 4/6 chickens laying.

SueT · Oct 1, 2017

Well after all that hoopla, our broody's 2 chicks didn't survive! The one that got cold didn't make it thru day 1. Second chick looked fine, mama taking good care of it, and then it mysteriously vanished on day 2. I had been reading a thread about letting broody raise chicks in the flock, and our mama wasn't going to have it any other way so that's what we were doing. Supposedly the flock helps protect the babies, it made sense to me. No way to know if it was a snake, another chicken or ? Anyway, she was probably too young and inexperienced, and I'm too old and inexperienced. I removed the last egg, candled it w a flashlight and could see it didn't develop so I tossed it. Mama returned to nest, looked around and around, then it was as if she woke up from a dream, and she simply went out and rejoined the flock. And that was that. What a journey. Quite surreal.
Okay, back to the contest at hand then. She'll start laying again. All our leghorns are now laying as we got 4 white eggs yesterday. One more bantam left to go.

AlleysChicks · Oct 1, 2017

Swed still hasn’t laid an egg. AND Hawk my EE that was hatched in April has decided to go broody. That’s what I get for saying no more chicks until spring :he

IdyllwildAcres · Oct 1, 2017

Well I may have had another 7/7 day but not sure... Egg production dropped in half for a couple days, then I found the stash! 3 of them were filling a nest in the coop in an area I had blocked off, not very well it seems. I fixed the dark corner so they cannot get in to lay there anymore hopefully they get back to laying in the nest box.

Gary

sfgwife · Oct 1, 2017

Went to the beach for two days and came home to a new small looooong white egglet in the box. Son the young said he had ten eggs sat and we got eight today. Das dumb. Lol. No mew buns to report but someone has been diggin a hole to china.

GreenbrierChickens · Oct 1, 2017

Ugh. So my chickens are 26w IF the lady was right in telling me their age. No definite layers despite being locked up for a Full day. The run is 16*8, but they look so sad when I keep them in. One possible Pinker tinge egg laid this week, but no definites. :barnie

But is it odd for ALL 8 to not be laying that late? Pairs of SLW, Welsummer, cuckoo Marans, and EE. If they are it to 30w without any def layers I am going to have to call her. :he