New2chickz
Chirping
- Aug 14, 2017
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Hey guys! So I had a moment of panic I wanted to share because well I've had chickens for a year now and we are getting off the free loading too hot to give eggs consistently months I didnt get to experience last year lol.
So I went to go check on chickens cuz we are on the outskirts of a hurricane here. And it's about that time where everyone is finding a spot to lay..roost oops lol when I happen to pet a barred rock who normally runs from me. And she has a big ole breast shes my biggest barred rock I have and I immediately thought omg my chicken is egg bound and went running to the house to google symptoms of said thing! Well it says feel the eggs and this and that and a bath. So I March out to this chicken grab her from the roost and start feeling. And all I can feel is not eggs I mean she must have like a built chest but its squishy with a little firmness but no round eggs or anything like that. And by this time she yelling at me cuz I have her on the ground feeling for something wrong. And I'm digging into her feathers looking at her vent and I'm checking a little list off in my head is she lethargic..no...does she looking like shes pooping but not no...she flew her way up 6ft in the air...yes..so I let her go and she runs back into the coop like I'm a crazy person after her and all I can figure is shes running yelling flying and I just groped my chicken?
Now I know my stars have a bigger chest when they are gonna lay the next day but this just seemed so big! Or maybe it's gonna be a big egg? She is bigger than my stars not as big as my delewares and my biggest is a lavender..orphington and some brahmas. But she sure did not appreciate me and my concern..so are all chickens bodies set up differently?
Anyway for all you veterans out there lol just imagine a woman walking with a determined look on her face and this poor chicken trying to figure out why I'm man handling her only to come to the conclusion nothing appears to be wrong and I have never come out at that time to see them settle down on the roost lol.
So I went to go check on chickens cuz we are on the outskirts of a hurricane here. And it's about that time where everyone is finding a spot to lay..roost oops lol when I happen to pet a barred rock who normally runs from me. And she has a big ole breast shes my biggest barred rock I have and I immediately thought omg my chicken is egg bound and went running to the house to google symptoms of said thing! Well it says feel the eggs and this and that and a bath. So I March out to this chicken grab her from the roost and start feeling. And all I can feel is not eggs I mean she must have like a built chest but its squishy with a little firmness but no round eggs or anything like that. And by this time she yelling at me cuz I have her on the ground feeling for something wrong. And I'm digging into her feathers looking at her vent and I'm checking a little list off in my head is she lethargic..no...does she looking like shes pooping but not no...she flew her way up 6ft in the air...yes..so I let her go and she runs back into the coop like I'm a crazy person after her and all I can figure is shes running yelling flying and I just groped my chicken?
Now I know my stars have a bigger chest when they are gonna lay the next day but this just seemed so big! Or maybe it's gonna be a big egg? She is bigger than my stars not as big as my delewares and my biggest is a lavender..orphington and some brahmas. But she sure did not appreciate me and my concern..so are all chickens bodies set up differently?
Anyway for all you veterans out there lol just imagine a woman walking with a determined look on her face and this poor chicken trying to figure out why I'm man handling her only to come to the conclusion nothing appears to be wrong and I have never come out at that time to see them settle down on the roost lol.
go me! 
