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

[aart]

Yes, Really....YMMV...but the poops definitely get much larger as they start producing eggs...they eat more, so bigger poops.

 

[tcbracing]

I'm in with 17 Buff Orpingtons and 11 Hoover's Black Sexlinks. Probably not any chance I get all of them to lay first, but with so many, I probably have a good chance of the first egg.

 

[Stephine]

Ha! I'm in! I just have one little SFH from this spring (the other female chick died from shipping stress and the third from that batch is a lovely cockerel). She was hatched April 3rd.

 

[sfgwife]

I can play along too. We got 17 day olds 11april. . Some of their faces are gettin more color now and i see more wattles too.yay for eggs soon!. Also.... the pic is of our nest box... should we make dividers? Or do they do ok with one big communal? Which is the more favored usually? Hubby still needs put a kick board on the box to keep the straw in when we put it in there.... maybe in the next weekish? Oh! Straw or pine shavings like the rest of the coop do ya think? I have also seen where people do curtains over nest boxes... should we? The pic was take about mid day if i remember right.

 

[tcbracing]

I'm in with 17 Buff Orpingtons and 11 Hoover's Black Sexlinks. Probably not any chance I get all of them to lay first, but with so many, I probably have a good chance of the first egg.

Oh yeah, forgot to say when they were hatched. Not exactly sure but we got them from local Rural King store on 4/3, so they were very early April or maybe even late March(?).

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I can play along too. We got 17 day olds 11april. . Some of their faces are gettin more color now and i see more wattles too.yay for eggs soon!. Also.... the pic is of our nest box... should we make dividers? Or do they do ok with one big communal? Which is the more favored usually? Hubby still needs put a kick board on the box to keep the straw in when we put it in there.... maybe in the next weekish? Oh! Straw or pine shavings like the rest of the coop do ya think? I have also seen where people do curtains over nest boxes... should we? The pic was take about mid day if i remember right.

I am going community next box for my 7

Gary

 

[aart]

We got 17 day olds 11april.

So hatched in March?

 

[sfgwife]

So hatched in March?

No sorry, 17 day old chicks. April 11, 2017. Sorry for my wonky date... been a military family for the last 26 years... :/. I tend to forget sometimes to do my dates and times the "civilian" way.

 

[aart]

No sorry, 17 day old chicks. April 11, 2017. Sorry for my wonky date... been a military family for the last 26 years... :/. I tend to forget sometimes to do my dates and times the "civilian" way.

Oh you got a qty of 17 one day old chicks on 4-11...so they hatched on 4-10!
It get confusing the numbers and the ages.

 

[sfgwife]

Oh you got a qty of 17 one day old chicks on 4-11...so they hatched on 4-10!
It get confusing the numbers and the ages.

Yep! .