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

[IdyllwildAcres]

7/7 again today! My girls are EGG LAYING MACHINES!!

Gary

 

[GreenbrierChickens]

Mine are still not laying. Looks like we will be running 30+ weeks. Ugh. Some are staying around my feet. Even the 2 flighty, skiddish welsummers. I am keeping hope alive they don't wait for spring.

 

[Bonniebooboo]

Mine are still not laying. Looks like we will be running 30+ weeks. Ugh. Some are staying around my feet. Even the 2 flighty, skiddish welsummers. I am keeping hope alive they don't wait for spring.

Hoping they don't wait much longer so you will be happy. Last year some of my Buff's started to lay at 5 mo, others didn't lay until 6 mo old. may have waited until spring, but I had put a heat light in the coop to keep water thawed, gave them more light, so that may have set them to laying then.

 

[lilmarie84]

well 2/5 is still the count but for some reason my WR that just started laying these past 2 days gets in the nest box gets comfy but then lays it on the ground instead of in the box

 

[SueT]

well 2/5 is still the count but for some reason my WR that just started laying these past 2 days gets in the nest box gets comfy but then lays it on the ground instead of in the box

I had an Australorp that always did that. Every egg outside after she sat on nest. But hopefully yours is just getting the hang of it.

 

[Li'lFlock]

Omg I have so much reading to catch up on this thread. I changed my phone and have just saved byc on my new one.

I’m still only 2/3. One of my girls even gave me a 2-fer. One in the morning, then one at night. Some occasional thin shells and random drops of super thin shelled eggs while roosted. Usually those days, I only have that lay, so I’m never sure who is still adjusting, or possibly both. I’m starting to think my one won’t lay until she’s near a year in the spring. My main reason for this post is the pic I’m going to include. At first I thought maybe my 3rd girl was laying on the sly and I wasn’t figuring it out. But I did the finger violating butt check. Her little hips are still too close together. I had 2 eggs yesterday and because today was so different, I thought mayyyybe she layed. But, no squats and narrow hips still...

Now, usually I can tell whose egg belongs to who because of the coloring. But this time they were so similar in color. One of my babies laid a beast. I said maybe one of them took me too seriously joking about their eggs not quite being “grade A extra large”

 

[BonDEEroo]

Miss Ostrich the araucana (my avatar) has finally laid a proper blue egg after a few practice brown ones. Age: 25 weeks.
Pompadour the araucana (same age) laid a tiny brown egg yesterday.
Nothing from their sister Doris.
Boy are they slow starters!

 

[SueT]

I got a double yolker from one of the leghorns! She was on the nest so long yesterday evening, it was beginning to get dark. Then when she finally laid, I saw this giant egg. I boiled it this morning. Very hard to peel fresh egg in spite of using heavily salted water and plunging into ice water. The bantam eggs were all easy to peel. I don't know why.

 

[Bonniebooboo]

I got a double yolker from one of the leghorns! She was on the nest so long yesterday evening, it was beginning to get dark. Then when she finally laid, I saw this giant egg. I boiled it this morning. Very hard to peel fresh egg in spite of using heavily salted water and plunging into ice water. The bantam eggs were all easy to peel. I don't know why.
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Love the double yolkers, but sad for the little hen. I bet that was a hard one to get out. Glad she made it.

 

[Bonniebooboo]

View attachment 1157675 Miss Ostrich the araucana (my avatar) has finally laid a proper blue egg after a few practice brown ones. Age: 25 weeks.
Pompadour the araucana (same age) laid a tiny brown egg yesterday.
Nothing from their sister Doris.
Boy are they slow starters!

Glad they started laying finally. Rather interesting though, that one laid brown eggs and went to green. never heard of changing colors like that. darker to lighter of same color but never a different color like that. That's pretty amazing.