Egg Song! Glorious Egg Song!

[iwiw60]

Woot!!!

 

[WVDoug]

woo hoo my first egg

Congrats!

 

[chickenhound]

A great feeling isn't it? Congratulations and hope you get lots more eggs. Nothing beats that first egg.
CH

 

[subhanalah]

Do any other species sing an egg song? Like quail or anything?

 

[Blooie]

Do any other species sing an egg song? Like quail or anything?

Interesting question.......

 

[chickenhound]

Do any other species sing an egg song? Like quail or anything?

Good question but unfortunately I don't know the answer. I am sure that someone @ BYC can answer your question. Do you have other fowl besides chickens?

 

[subhanalah]

Good question but unfortunately I don't know the answer. I am sure that someone @ BYC can answer your question. Do you have other fowl besides chickens?

I have ducks...but they are just loud on a regular basis...well, not the 'scovies but I don't think I'll be hearing more than a peep from them ever lol.

 

[chickenhound]

I think it is the fact that if another egg is there already, they feel safer. I read somewhere on these forums that the ratio for nesting boxes should be about 4 hens to 1 box. If you want to encourage the ladies to use the other boxes as well try moving a fresh egg to one of the un-used boxes. This is only my second year with chickens but I started with wooden eggs (Hobby Lobby has them) in the nest boxes before the girls even matured enough to lay their own and I just leave them there, so far it has worked. I have never heard it called the egg song either but that makes sense. I know my girls (20 of them from last years batch) all get very loud in the afternoon then I go out early even and collect.
I can wait till this years batch start laying, probably won't be till spring now though, since they are just now 5 weeks old.
I have made an observation about egg laying that I wonder if any others have noticed. I have an excel spreadsheet that I use to track egg production (what? I can be the only one that does this!) anyway, I have notice that I gather more eggs if I collect every other day instead of every day, anyone else experience this? The average is the same but it normally increases over all by 1 or 2.

Thanks for the response Rockythgr81. Makes sense to me.
CH

 

[chickenhound]

I have ducks...but they are just loud on a regular basis...well, not the 'scovies but I don't think I'll be hearing more than a peep from them ever lol.

Hi subhanalah, I hade a few white ducks years ago and I don't remember them singing any songs when they laid. I do know that the shells were super hard, the eggs were super big and they tasted great.

 

[subhanalah]

Hi subhanalah, I hade a few white ducks years ago and I don't remember them singing any songs when they laid. I do know that the shells were super hard, the eggs were super big and they tasted great.

how would you cook them for breakfast? I've read they don't fry well. Is that also scrambled?