Fairy egg annoying easter hunt

[BigBlueHen53]

Yes, pullets may lay smallish eggs for several weeks but they are still healthy and delicious. They will get bigger in time, a few weeks or maybe a couple of months.

To determine whether your rooster is fertilizing the eggs, you have to look carefully at a yolk after you break one into a bowl. Every yolk will have a little white spot on it. But in a fertile egg that spot will be bigger and look like a bull's-eye. Sometimes you have to carefully turn the yolk over to see it.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Some people have suggested that she might have been stolen.
There was so many people that came here to delivery things yesterday, in beat-up cares only here for 30 minutes, and two trespassers.

I can’t say for sure yet—but there is a suspicious listing someone came across. Someone is selling a single Rhode Island Red in Frenchman Hills (not an area anyone wants to be). They claim she’s “super tame” (which is unusual here—most birds are raised in small cages for livestock, not handled like pets), and they mention she “looks pure RIR” (also rare here unless someone paid to import them from the mainland). They’re asking for a big bucks (100 bucks), and she’s being kept in the back of a pickup truck, inside a dog kennel, covered with a tarp being sold with local catch fish and used power tools.

I keep telling myself she has to show up for at least one meal in a 24-hour window, right?

I’m honestly freaking out. I am a white woman, not welcome in that area. I will know her by her comb in a instant.

How much are they asking for the RIR hen? Do you have any workers/ co-workers/ acquaintances who are POC (persons of color) who would go buy her back for you?

It might not feel like winning, as in justice being done, but it would be winning if you got your girl back.

Edit to add: oh sorry, I just saw the $100. That sounds like a ransom demand. Your call, though. I'm really sorry!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Nobody's going to pay $100 for a chicken they plan to eat though.

 

[CabritaChicks]

Nobody's going to pay $100 for a chicken they plan to eat though.

No- multiple people pool the money.... they use it for eggs, will breed it to create meat in cages. It is a thing. To get a chicken from states here of any quality.... is many hundreds of dollars, only a couple months of the year and then you need to raise it to breeding egg/laying age. If you steal one, mix it with your own flock, you make hybrids plus edible eggs.

She has been confirmed stolen, she went up for auction.
I saw the pictures- It is her. Even the scar on her toe from when my parrot bit her.

Police were no help. Unless some kind sole comes through, she is gone. I posted online- all the posts got flagged, even the 'lost chicken' got removed in seconds.

So I guess I focus on my remaining flock now I have 5.5 chickens, soon to have 5 since gyspy has a home worked out.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm so sorry this has happened. Apparently you must keep your precious birds under lock and key. What a horrible experience.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

No- multiple people pool the money.... they use it for eggs, will breed it to create meat in cages. It is a thing. To get a chicken from states here of any quality.... is many hundreds of dollars, only a couple months of the year and then you need to raise it to breeding egg/laying age. If you steal one, mix it with your own flock, you make hybrids plus edible eggs.

She has been confirmed stolen, she went up for auction.
I saw the pictures- It is her. Even the scar on her toe from when my parrot bit her.

Police were no help. Unless some kind sole comes through, she is gone. I posted online- all the posts got flagged, even the 'lost chicken' got removed in seconds.

So I guess I focus on my remaining flock now I have 5.5 chickens, soon to have 5 since gyspy has a home worked out.

Wow, I guess you’ve identified a predator to defend against. I’m so sorry.