Egg question

[chickens really]

Maybe i just had a case of the grasss is greener

Started behaving like your user name....
we all get impatient..

 

[Jealous Gypsy]

Started behaving like your user name....
we all get impatient..

 

[aart]

I wouldn't be feeding layer to birds that are not layers. They don't need the extra calcium it's hard on kidneys.

Also the lower protein in layer can slow there growth/maturity.
I feed 20% flock raiser to all the birds, mixed age and genders, with Oyster shell in a separate feeder for the layers.

 

[chickens really]

Also the lower protein in layer can slow there growth/maturity.
I feed 20% flock raiser to all the birds, mixed age and genders, with Oyster shell in a separate feeder for the layers.

Mine is 16% protein with minimal free range daily. Oyster shell once a week but I like hatching eggs that chicks can pip out of safely.
None of my Birds are fat...

 

[thatbeechick]

Araucanas/Ameraucanas especially take a long time to lay. I got my aracana hen at "point of lay" and it took 7 months to get a single egg from her! I wondered for a long time if she was a rooster! My ISA brown lays eggs like clockwork every day. Breeds can be vastly different with how much and how often they lay, along with the age they start laying at. The other thing that can affect it is seasons. I have a mixed flock and about half of mine shut up shop for the winter! If it's coming into shorter days and colder months, that also might be a contributing factor. I hope this has helped you!

 

[Jealous Gypsy]

Araucanas/Ameraucanas especially take a long time to lay. I got my aracana hen at "point of lay" and it took 7 months to get a single egg from her! I wondered for a long time if she was a rooster! My ISA brown lays eggs like clockwork every day. Breeds can be vastly different with how much and how often they lay, along with the age they start laying at. The other thing that can affect it is seasons. I have a mixed flock and about half of mine shut up shop for the winter! If it's coming into shorter days and colder months, that also might be a contributing factor. I hope this has helped you!

Ty. I think the weather is a factor as well. Qorking on the addition tomorrow though maybe ill be surprised one day when i look in the nesting box

 

[Jealous Gypsy]

So member when i said maybe one day id be suprised ?

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Hahaha! Congratulations!

I was going to say that all my chicks were born in mid-April, but my Australorp was the first to lay, and Wyandotte the last. That was before I read your last post!

But I also found a cache of tiny eggs (16!) hidden away. I piled a lot of big rocks in their makeshift nest, and put some hard-boiled eggs in the nest box with extra straw, and now they all lay where I can reach the eggs properly.

Make sure your nesting area is private and dark. See how they liked that log? Dark and private!

 

[Jealous Gypsy]

Yup, im converting over an old camper and turning the cabin6into laying boxes. In the mean time I will check the log regularly. I noticed she stopped laying when i removed the eggs. I read your post and put an old marble egg in it. Within 5 minutes she was in there again laying a new egg.

 

[SueT]

The days are getting shorter, late maturing pullets may wait till spring. The May chicks I've raised waited till spring to lay. This year I have June hatched pullets, I do not expect eggs before spring from them for sure.