Countdown To Eggs! For June hatches 😊

[UThobbyfarmer]

My June BCM hen. Wonder why she’s the favorite?



This is the chick pictured in my avatar. June HAL chicks, Blue laced red Wyandotte roo and Olive egger (Legbar/Welsummer) hen. She threw me for awhile with her dark shoulder but she is 100% pullet. She is so pretty. I wish she was friendlier.






A few group shots. All chicks from June or July.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

My July “assorted pullets” have been so fun to grow out. All 10 are in fact pullets!
1-Cinnamon Queen
2- Olive Egger or Grunleger (Legbar X)
1- Black Australorp or Midnight Majesty Marans
6-Easter Eggers

I know it’s going to be awhile but I still can’t wait for them to lay!

 

[Iluveggers]

Had an egg song today, with some movement of fake eggs in the nest box. I’m in shock! Wasn’t expecting to see any signs this early! A few seem like they are squatting/ducking when I go to pet them, too. Hopefully we will have eggs soon!

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Had an egg song today, with some movement of fake eggs in the nest box. I’m in shock! Wasn’t expecting to see any signs this early! A few seem like they are squatting/ducking when I go to pet them, too. Hopefully we will have eggs soon!

That's great news! What age are your frontrunners?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Jumping on just for fun with Kai my only chick that I kept from June. Hatched on the June Hatch A-long on June 23. Expected egg laying in February!
Photo as a 2 day old and then here the other day at nine weeks of age.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

My last ones started laying around 8 months. Once they start laying, they lay like any other chicken. The problem is, they love to go broody. That’s where they get the low laying rate from.

My little bantam Cochin, Hanabi, just stopped being broody after almost 3 months! Now she’s molting!
Here she is with some of her Silkie “sisters“. She’s smaller than all of them!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Jumping on just for fun with Kai my only chick that I kept from June. Hatched on the June Hatch A-long on June 23. Expected egg laying in February!
Photo as a 2 day old and then here the other day at nine weeks of age.
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I'm probably in the same boat, looking at next year for eggs from my June babies, too.

My little bantam Cochin, Hanabi, just stopped being broody after almost 3 months! Now she’s molting!
Here she is with some of her Silkie “sisters“. She’s smaller than all of them!View attachment 3254239

Is it a Red Cochin thing to just be completely insane about broodying?! My three Reds did the same exact thing! Crazy little birds!

 

[WallyG74]

I'm probably in the same boat, looking at next year for eggs from my June babies, too.




Is it a Red Cochin thing to just be completely insane about broodying?! My three Reds did the same exact thing! Crazy little birds!

I have 2 buffs, 1 blue and 1 black. When one goes, they all go! It’s maddening but they share the load when I give them eggs. All 4 are great mamas.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I haven't had the opportunity to let mine try out mothering yet, but next year might be their year. I want to hatch as much as I can from my silkied Cochins to grow out but I only have so much capacity in my incubators and I've got shipped eggs coming at some point in the spring, too. They all three pile together in the nests when they go broody, so I imagine they wouldn't mind sharing some eggs to hatch.

Knowing them, though, that'll be the year they all decide they're too old to go broody again just to spite me, the little witches.

Edited to fix a typo​

 

[Iluveggers]

That's great news! What age are your frontrunners?

My two oldest are about 15 weeks, and the youngest of the group are 12 weeks. So it’s definitely early, but not totally impossible to have eggs by October!