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Mine's doing that too, but only because it's raining!
 
So.....any eggs? Mine started squatting, and her comb is shooting skyward! Sorry for the blood. She's fine now. Poor baby :(.

 
StarLover21 said:
So.....any eggs? Mine started squatting, and her comb is shooting skyward! Sorry for the blood. She's fine now. Poor baby :(.

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Ouch - what happened?

No - AC has not laid an egg and all that getting in/out of the nest box activity has ceased. I have witnessed Foghorn mating her alot, but I think she's waiting for spring to start her egg laying :(

Smokey went broody on Feb 1st and is sitting on 3 of her green eggs & 3 of Snow White's white eggs - due to hatch 2/21? - so we're looking forward to some new chicks at the end of February.

My latest purchase is about 8 eggs each of Ameraucana and Welsummers arriving either today or tomorrow for hatching in the incubator. So hopefully we'll get some blue & dark brown egg layers out of that hatch.

After a whopping 56 consecutive laying days - Snow White finally didn't lay an egg, so I got a big fat ZERO eggs yesterday. Sort of bummed about that - but I suppose she needed the break. So presently I have just 1 layer!

My four 16wo Lavender Orpingtons do not look even close to laying - but they are interested in the nest box and eating layer feed/oyster shell - so maybe their bodies are getting ready. I can't tell about the Silkies - they still are a mystery to me.

And we are celebrating that we have 2 adorable new chicks - named by my children - on the left is Sunny & on the right is Spots - EE Bandit & WL Foghorn's offspring :)


 
Aw, they're adorable!
One of my hens pecked her comb. She's doing much better now, and we're keeping them seperate. I think we may look into getting some pinless peepers for the two bully hens.
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Do you have lighting in your coop? That may help her lay quicker. We don't, unfortunatally- we don't really have a way to get electricity out there.
 
I caught her in the coop today....
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But she came out. She's heading that direction again....even if she isn't going to lay her egg, at least she's practicing!
 
We do have lighting - our coop is about 50 feet away from outside GFCI receptacle so I have several lengths of heavy duty outdoor extension cords running to a 6 outlet strip where I plugged in a timer that has the tent lights in it. LOL! I did the wiring last summer so I could have a heat lamp out there and keep the babies warm between weeks 4 & 6 before moving them into the big coop area.

I haven't even had time to run out there to check on anyone since this morning - between dishwasher repairman & taxes & homeschool & laundry - it's been a busy day!

Hope you get another egg today! I got one from Snow White this morning :)
 
She LAYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right in the nest box too! A little beautiful white egg!!!! SO excited!
 

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