California - Northern

[SpringPeeper]

Anyone North of Gilroy getting rain yet?

-Kathy

Yep, a pretty rainy Halloween for us.

Isn't that what hot tubs are for?

Oh the mental image...

Here us the hen in question. I regoogled rhodebar and she is not red! I thought they looked the same now i r confused..

And for those asking from before here are my blue silkie projects:


here is mum

Yeah, she is pretty, but doesn't look like a Rhodebar to me.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Any idea as to what this is? It was in a nest box with a thin shelled egg. Poking it with my scraper, it "felt" kind of leathery.

She likely did not lay an egg for a while--which caused one that was close to ready to go through some odd changes in the coloring and shell process. Was she molting?

Everyone's molting, except maybe my EE. I haven't had any no egg days yet, though, which is nice. And I've had days when everyone not raising chicks gave me eggs. No hard molts--certainly nothing to enter into the contest! So, just a weird egg? I was afraid it was some part of her reproductive system or something.

 

[ronott1]

Everyone's molting, except maybe my EE. I haven't had any no egg days yet, though, which is nice. And I've had days when everyone not raising chicks gave me eggs. No hard molts--certainly nothing to enter into the contest!

So, just a weird egg? I was afraid it was some part of her reproductive system or something.

I could not find it yesterday since I had Friday brain. I did find information for you today.

It is called a lash egg and although it is sometimes a sign of illness it is more likely a sign that the hen is coming back into laying after molting.

click for an article about them

 

[LAChick]

Great read on the "Lash Egg"! Thanks for posting it, perfect for Halloween! All the years of flock tending, I never came across this.

 

[ronott1]

Great read on the "Lash Egg"! Thanks for posting it, perfect for Halloween! All the years of flock tending, I never came across this.

I have had one like that. They are not very common. It is more common to get a little wind egg. I have had a bunch of those.

 

[LAChick]

Yep, had soft, small, double, & pimply before!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Quote:
OK, that's exactly what it was like, with added sit-in-the-nestbox-and-dry-out time

But still, ewwwww.

 

[tommysgirl]

I could not find it yesterday since I had Friday brain. I did find information for you today.

It is called a lash egg and although it is sometimes a sign of illness it is more likely a sign that the hen is coming back into laying after molting.

click for an article about them

Thanks Ron! I found one of those too. Never knew what it was until now.

@AmyPaperlady this was mine ewwww is right
.

I also wanted to share some of the birds that I can thank the wonderful people on this board..my pics aren't great but I am thrilled with what they are of:

The New Hampshire Pullets I got from lual shannon:

Mamie ^


Penny^v

Mamie v


This is a RSL NH over a Dorking hen. I got the mama from Kim Do you see her extra toe? She only has it on one foot
@ronott1 @capayvalleychick


This gorgeous thing v is the only "Red Star" pullet I hatched all year. Delaware mama came from Kim. She looks nothing like the what were supposed to be NH over Del Red Stars I got with my first hatchery flock. She lays a really dark egg. It's beautiful.



And these beauties are the girls from my 4th of July hatch that Ron did for me.



Daphne the Pita Pinta ^



Magnus turned Maggie the Konza v ^ with Reese. Maggie has little hearts all over her breast.



And for a final shot the mortification of the molt...this is Harriet's...one of Kims pre kathyinmo girls showing what right now is her not so great side



I also have two Marans Pullets from Laura but they were camera shy

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

 

[Minflick]

I had Toulouse geese for a year and a half, several years ago. I got them as adults, 2 pairs, and they did NOT love me. At all. I let one goose hatch some eggs, and suddenly I had, I think, 8 geese! Dang... The next winter, I had goose eggs so huge they went from the base of my palm to the tips of my fingers, and I don't have teeny dainty hands! And I had an egg every day from Valentines to Father's Day. One day, in a puddle in their pen, was a shell-less egg. Perfect in every way in shape and heft, but no shell at all. I remember being REALLY reluctant to pick it up for fear of breaking it all over my hands, but I got it up and dumped it safely. Wasn't going to try to eat it after being in that puddle for a while.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron! I found one of those too. Never knew what it was until now.

@AmyPaperlady this was mine ewwww is right
.

I also wanted to share some of the birds that I can thank the wonderful people on this board..my pics aren't great but I am thrilled with what they are of:

The New Hampshire Pullets I got from lual shannon:

Mamie ^


Penny^v

Mamie v


This is a RSL NH over a Dorking hen. I got the mama from Kim Do you see her extra toe? She only has it on one foot
@ronott1 @capayvalleychick


This gorgeous thing v is the only "Red Star" pullet I hatched all year. Delaware mama came from Kim. She looks nothing like the what were supposed to be NH over Del Red Stars I got with my first hatchery flock. She lays a really dark egg. It's beautiful.



And these beauties are the girls from my 4th of July hatch that Ron did for me.



Daphne the Pita Pinta ^



Magnus turned Maggie the Konza v ^ with Reese. Maggie has little hearts all over her breast.



And for a final shot the mortification of the molt...this is Harriet's...one of Kims pre kathyinmo girls showing what right now is her not so great side



Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

They all look so nice!

Your Pita Pinta has a lot of white on her.

Please post a picture or two of her on the Pita Pinta thread that @PetRock started.