Eggs laid - No one claims them?

[Kedreeva]

/agree!

Eat them! They will be tasty.

EDIT: and about four month olds not laying..... that is when ours started laying. We got them in late march as day-olds and they started laying in late July. Of course, they were funny little pullet eggs, but it's certainly possible.

 

[texasgal]

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My friends not-quite six month old bantam cochin is walking around with 9 babies that she hatched last week ....

 

[BeccaB00]

Hens will lay 1 egg most every day until they get the amount they want to set on, as the eggs do not start incubating until they get warm. So your hen maybe waiting until she gets a few more eggs.

They need to be about a year old to set. I know some set earlier some set later but normally they gotta be about a year old.
AND lastly they gotta be broody. If your hen is not broody she will not set on the eggs.

 

[Sgsf]

Well, the Heat index/temperature outside is over 100 - And it will be like that for the next few days. Will they just end up hatching on their own?

And if we set them in our shed, which is hotter (during the nights also I guess), would that be a good way to incubate them?

And why did she lay 2 eggs in one day?

 

[GeeVee]

is your goal to hatch some chicks?
because home grown eggs are pretty tasty

anyways, unfortunately incubation is quite a bit more complicated than just sitting an egg in 100 degree weather. you have to think about humidity, egg rotations, no big temp fluctuations (like dropping lower than 98 at night, or getting higher than 102 during the day). however, i have heard of a miraculous chick hatching after sitting out in the sun...i guess you never know. all i can say is hatching them by leaving them out there is pretty unlikely, and if you really want chicks you could invest in an incubator

 

[bibliophile birds]

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yeah, my Silkie went broody at 5.5 months, about 2 weeks after she started laying! and all three of my buff Orps have gone broody. all 4 girls sat their nests and hatched chicks. they won't be a year old until Oct 2.

i think the whole "about a year old" thing is because most people get chicks in the spring. by the time their hens feel like it's time to go broody, they are about a year old. mine were born in the fall, so this spring seemed like the perfect time to them, even though they were young!