California - Northern

[ronott1]

Hi! How is everyone doing?

Got my first Marans egg a few days ago! Super stoked! Although she hasn't laid since, is that normal for new layers?

Congratulations on the egg!

They often start in fits and spurts. She will lay more soon and the egg may be a little bigger next time(That already looks like a big egg!)

 

[debs_flock]

Hi! How is everyone doing?

Got my first Marans egg a few days ago! Super stoked! Although she hasn't laid since, is that normal for new layers?

Congratulations, I always love them when they are speckled. Maybe she'll get her "paint gun" in full working mode soon. I'll be anxious to see what color she settles into.

 

[Nikon]

Congratulations, I always love them when they are speckled. Maybe she'll get her "paint gun" in full working mode soon. I'll be anxious to see what color she settles into.

Thanks! I can't believe she laid before the SL Wyandotte (hatchery) and the EE from Chickee since she is younger. I'm curious to see if she stays speckly. Was such a surprise in the nest box!

 

[chickee]

Hi! How is everyone doing?

Got my first Marans egg a few days ago! Super stoked! Although she hasn't laid since, is that normal for new layers?

Looks beautiful next to the green egg! Once you get a blue egg you will have a wonderful assortment of colored eggs!

None of my pure Ameraucanas or color mixed Ameraucana pullets that hatched this year have started laying yet either. Hopefully yours and mine will start soon!

3 of my 6 Golden Cuckoo Marans have started laying and they are also younger than the Ameraucanas.

 

[lawatt]

finally home from work today, and candled the eggs (day 8 in the incubator) -- of the seven isbar eggs that came from Mary, 4 hve nice clear veins, two are uncertain (dark masses, but nothing identifiable as a vein), and one that looks clear but i'll leave it in a few more days, just in case.

with the dark marans eggs, though, my gosh it's hard to tell what i'm looking at, if anything. one seemed to have a blood ring (which i should take out, yes? or leave a few more days & check again?), but most of them i just couldn't see anything definitive. the challenge of dark layers!

 

[ronott1]

finally home from work today, and candled the eggs (day 8 in the incubator) -- of the seven isbar eggs that came from Mary, 4 hve nice clear veins, two are uncertain (dark masses, but nothing identifiable as a vein), and one that looks clear but i'll leave it in a few more days, just in case.

with the dark marans eggs, though, my gosh it's hard to tell what i'm looking at, if anything. one seemed to have a blood ring (which i should take out, yes? or leave a few more days & check again?), but most of them i just couldn't see anything definitive. the challenge of dark layers!

Thank you for the report! Dark eggs are crazy hard to see into. I give them plenty of time.

 

[lawatt]

Thank you for the report! Dark eggs are crazy hard to see into. I give them plenty of time.

thanks! i will be patient...

edit: on second thought, i took the blood ring one out. don't want any explosions!

 

[Flowers of Abba]

feeling sad... my basque eggs have floating blobs, no movement. Im going to leave them in there but not feeling hopeful. Bah! and after such a nice 100% serama hatch from chiquita! oh well I do hate shipped eggs.

 

[juststruttin]

feeling sad... my basque eggs have floating blobs, no movement. Im going to leave them in there but not feeling hopeful. Bah! and after such a nice 100% serama hatch from chiquita! oh well I do hate shipped eggs.

I started writing you to offer eggs and then remembered... my girls aren't laying

Everyone decided to molt at the same time. Sea of Feathers.

 

[juststruttin]

I lost a Polish to an owl last night, or atleast I think it was an owl.

I have been locking the birds up at 6:45 every night last night but last night I did not make it out there until 7:30 because I was taking an on-line timed test to re-knew my Real Estate License. As I approached one of the barns I could see a silhouette of a large bird which flew away as soon as I got close. I decided it must have been an owl unless hawks fly at night.

Unfortunately, I found one of my Polish headless on the ground below where the bird was perched. The curious thing is that the polish lives in a barn at least 200' from where its body was found. I also find it odd that the bird was headless. Is removing the head typical owl behavior?