Arizona Chickens

[Happychi2019]

First egg!! 21 weeks. View attachment 1664173

Congratulations! Can’t wait for ours. Enjoy

 

[igorsMistress]

First egg!! 21 weeks. View attachment 1664173

 

[starri33]

@starri33 Usually someone is coming back into lay or starting to lay and just doesn't have things coordinated yet. Not a big deal in general. I too toss mine to the far side of my yard and the girls have a rodeo with it. I don't throw eggs around my nest or feeding area as I don't want to encourage anything ugly!

Yeah, I don't panic over these, it's only the second that I've gotten in the 3 years that I've had the girls, when I start worrying is when the egg breaks in my hand without much pressure.. lets me know it's time to increase their calcium, the egg that had broke in my pocket was very thin, so I need to get their oyster shell tube moved.

 

[starri33]

Thanks. Me too. It is amazing how different climates effect the birds. Does this high wind terrify the chickens?

Mine tend to hang out in the coop, they don't care for the winds. I can't blame them, I don't like them either.

 

[starri33]

First egg!! 21 weeks. View attachment 1664173

That's a good sized egg.. sexlink?

 

[Geranium]

That's a good sized egg.. sexlink?

I'm pretty sure it's from my Australorp Harriet. She was the first to start squatting, last Monday. Another Australorp started squatting a day or two later. An Orpington squatted at the end of last week, and my Austra White squatted yesterday (but her eggs will be closer to white). But it was just on the ground in the coop when I let them out this morning.

 

[Happychi2019]

Mine tend to hang out in the coop, they don't care for the winds. I can't blame them, I don't like them either.

Me either. I am staying in too

 

[BlueBaby]

Me either. I am staying in too

I still went out there to feed them, and then to also check up on them. I still had 3 younger one's that were still in my grow-out pen that aren't quite big enough to turn loose with the main flock in there yet. I wanted to make sure everyone out there was okay. My rooster Charley is a good one, and had all the girl's protected by hiding inside of the coop.

 

[BlueBaby]

@igorsMistress Charley still has 10 girls in his harem here, even with those 4 hen's that now live next door at my neighbor's. Pam named them Ginger, Roxy, Lulu, and Misty, and she yell's across the fence at me every time she get's an egg.

@Michelle Guynn Yes, I'm still saving that one hen named Precious that you wanted for you.

 

[igorsMistress]

@igorsMistress Charley still has 10 girls in his harem here, even with those 4 hen's that now live next door at my neighbor's. Pam named them Ginger, Roxy, Lulu, and Misty, and she yell's across the fence at me every time she get's an egg.

@Michelle Guynn Yes, I'm still saving that one hen named Precious that you wanted for you.

That's so cool she's excited about eggs!

Fugly has 6 girls but one isn't speaking to him ever again and tge others beat him up if he tries to mate. That doesn't mean I'm not getting fertile eggs though. Randy little buggar!