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

[SueT]

I leave my fake eggs in. Well, I also have one who isn't laying yet....
but if you leave them in, you'll know where they are. If you end up with new chickens next year or the following for whatever reason, you won't have to search for the fakes.

 

[AlleysChicks]

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Here's a pic of the 4/3

So... when can I take the golf balls out? Or should I keep them in permanently?

I keep mine in. I took some out of my year old pen to add to the newbie coop and they flipped out! I left only 1 egg in the coop lol

 

[Sara Ranch]

@SueT -- wow - my girls don't even have anything that resembles your picture!! Girls have gone to bed for the night. I'll try to get pics tomorrow, if it's not storming here.

Confident that they are leghorns. Am very open to hearing opinions to whether they might be something else.

Purchase date from TSC was April 29, 2017. Store associate thought the Leghorns (only white birds being sold in that location) were 3 or 4 days old at time of purchase.

I know TSC associates make many, many, MANY mistakes regarding birds. I have 4 ISA Browns that the associate was CONFIDENT that they were Reg Rangers or Cornish Rocks.

So say the birds were born April 25, 2017....that would make them...23 weeks old - nearly 24 weeks old.

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On a side note, I have one Buff cockerel that FINALLY has the comb and waddle the size of your Brown Leghorn's pic. And he's 24, going on 25 weeks old!

 

[AlleysChicks]

Still no egg from Swed. Look at this smug face!

 

[SueT]

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@SueT -- wow - my girls don't even have anything that resembles your picture!! Girls have gone to bed for the night. I'll try to get pics tomorrow, if it's not storming here.

Confident that they are leghorns. Am very open to hearing opinions to whether they might be something else.

Purchase date from TSC was April 29, 2017. Store associate thought the Leghorns (only white birds being sold in that location) were 3 or 4 days old at time of purchase.

I know TSC associates make many, many, MANY mistakes regarding birds. I have 4 ISA Browns that the associate was CONFIDENT that they were Reg Rangers or Cornish Rocks.

So say the birds were born April 25, 2017....that would make them...23 weeks old - nearly 24 weeks old.

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On a side note, I have one Buff cockerel that FINALLY has the comb and waddle the size of your Brown Leghorn's pic. And he's 24, going on 25 weeks old!

Well whatever they are, leghorns or a newer strain of, if their combs and wattles are red, it's a good sign that they WILL be laying.. I have a bantam who is now 28 weeks, red comb and wattles for weeks, but not yet laying. If it goes without laying till the days are too short, it may wait for next spring. But they are all going to lay.

 

[Magnolia7330]

We have 5 layers now. Our black australorp started laying. Now just waiting for our buckeye.

 

[Bonniebooboo]

I locked my 11 pullets up yesterday and today, I am getting 6/11 that I know of now. some I caught laying, others I just found the little eggs. On the 4 wheeler basket, in the middle of the barn floor, barn feed trough and in the coop floor and in the grass sweeper and some in the coop nest. so don't know who all is laying but seem like they all should be due to all combs being red and bigger and letting the rooster breed. The first ones to lay were on Sept 21/22, EE's were the first. I'll have to get another picture soon. Lots of winners in this thread.

 

[peckpeckpeck]

Still no egg from Swed. Look at this smug face!

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But she's gosh darn cute!

I locked my 11 pullets up yesterday and today, I am getting 6/11 that I know of now. some I caught laying, others I just found the little eggs. On the 4 wheeler basket, in the middle of the barn floor, barn feed trough and in the coop floor and in the grass sweeper and some in the coop nest. so don't know who all is laying but seem like they all should be due to all combs being red and bigger and letting the rooster breed. The first ones to lay were on Sept 21/22, EE's were the first. I'll have to get another picture soon. Lots of winners in this thread.

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The eggs are so pretty! So varied in size.
It really tickles me to see each girl lay such different & surprising eggs. I really thought my RIR would lay the biggest eggs but it was my EE from the start.

And their colors... My EE has olive green legs so I thought her eggs would be green but they're a clear aqua color.
My Barred Rock has bright red earlobes so I thought hers would be dark brown. But they're a pale pinkish brown, almost cream colored.

Will wonders never cease?!

 

[Bonniebooboo]

@peckpeckpeck Wonders will never cease! It is crazy how many variations of a color or size they can make. They are small eggs, but one laid that medium size green one, kind of schocked me for a first timer, then next time laid the smaller egg and now they are increasing in the egg size compared to their 1st week. the EE's have laid nearly every day since starting. I have 9/11 laying now. 3 more just started, who knows if they will all lay in one day. I have read what the eggs should be, then just wait and see what they will be! I think the Aqua blue/ light blue eggs are prettier than the olive green, but all are fun to have in a varied basket. It seems some have a little lighter color the more they lay too. Young, or after molting adults seem to have a darker color first few eggs, then tend to lighten to a more regular color. Is that the same for you or other folks? I just had a buff x pullet lay a dark brown almost round egg, her first one. I'll have to see if they lighten a bit, but bet they will. Always interesting and always amazing..

 

[lilmarie84]

Sorry been gone a while guys been really busy I just took in 3 new girls from a friend that needed to down size his flock but these girls arent being entered cuz they are a year and a half so they have been laying for a while so they don't qualify and they lay at all times o the day so I check a few times a day for eggs now but up until today the count from my original flock has been 1/5 but i caught one of my white rocks in the nest box when I went out for the 2nd round of egg collection I didn't hear the egg song but she ended up laying cuz I got 5 eggs today instead of 4 counting the 3 new girls so out of my original girls the count is now 2/5