Life has been busy and I forgot to give you all and update:
About mid November I started getting smallish off-white but almost white eggs. I was praising my little White Silkie hens, but they were not who laid them.
Then one afternoon my "Nice" Golden Campine was acting strange, talking funny and looking like trying to nest but no place was good enough.
So I let her be for a half hour or so all by her self, no one else with her. And when I came back she had next to her a warm smallish off-white nearly white egg! Since then the eggs have gotten bigger so they are now almost the size of a normal "large size" egg from the store.
My "Nice" Golden Campine was about 9 months old when I first started seeing eggs from her.
And in mid December the White Silkies started laying smaller more off-white eggs.
I have yet to see my "Mean" Golden Campine exhibit the same nesting behavior but there has still been no crowing, no spur growth, and no rooster-on-hen action.
My backyard flock contains 1 Black-Star Sex-Link, 2 White Silkies, and 2 Golden Campine; over the last month I have collected between 14 and 16 eggs each week.
The first two pictures are of my "Nice" Golden Campine:
This is my "Mean" Golden Campine (and a photo bomb by my Sex-Link):
Thank you for all your input over the last few months.
About mid November I started getting smallish off-white but almost white eggs. I was praising my little White Silkie hens, but they were not who laid them.
Then one afternoon my "Nice" Golden Campine was acting strange, talking funny and looking like trying to nest but no place was good enough.
So I let her be for a half hour or so all by her self, no one else with her. And when I came back she had next to her a warm smallish off-white nearly white egg! Since then the eggs have gotten bigger so they are now almost the size of a normal "large size" egg from the store.
My "Nice" Golden Campine was about 9 months old when I first started seeing eggs from her.
And in mid December the White Silkies started laying smaller more off-white eggs.
I have yet to see my "Mean" Golden Campine exhibit the same nesting behavior but there has still been no crowing, no spur growth, and no rooster-on-hen action.
My backyard flock contains 1 Black-Star Sex-Link, 2 White Silkies, and 2 Golden Campine; over the last month I have collected between 14 and 16 eggs each week.
The first two pictures are of my "Nice" Golden Campine:
This is my "Mean" Golden Campine (and a photo bomb by my Sex-Link):
Thank you for all your input over the last few months.