First Egg Countdown

[Jewelwing]

Here is the one I have:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DQOEIE/ref=oh_details_o09_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I am hoping to fill up my new egg skelter soon too. I think I actually have had 7 eggs on it so far. I have a red one. My younger chicks are 22 weeks today. The egg count yesterday was 4, so they are slowly adding up! Still only one of the 22 weekers are laying and I have 16 of them.

Oooh, I like it in red. Black is probably better for my kitchen, though, since I have red walls.

nice eggs

Why, thank you very much!

I have freeloaders. Nuttin' yet. Lost track of how many weeks - 23? Something like that. Hecate, the barred rock, is very red in her comb and around her face. Hattie, the EE, is still pale pink.

I only know how many weeks because I wrote it on the calendar. 24 weeks old today. Nine chickens, and only one's laying. She's not laying in the nest boxes - she's laid all five of her eggs underneath the boxes. I have plastic Easter eggs in the boxes - do you think they're too light weight? Should I use golf balls or wooden eggs instead? I'm worried that all the others will follow her lead and no one will lay in the boxes!

 

[chickadee5002]

Oooh, I like it in red.  Black is probably better for my kitchen, though, since I have red walls.

Why, thank you very much!

I only know how many weeks because I wrote it on the calendar.  24 weeks old today.  Nine chickens, and only one's laying.  She's not laying in the nest boxes - she's laid all five of her eggs underneath the boxes.  I have plastic Easter eggs in the boxes - do you think they're too light weight?  Should I use golf balls or wooden eggs instead?  I'm worried that all the others will follow her lead and no one will lay in the boxes!

I used golf balls for the girls and they have always layed their eggs in the nest boxes. I did try taking them out and they threw a fit! I didn't get any eggs for a couple days! I put them back in the nest boxes and they started laying again. Goofy chickens!

 

[Kikwi]

4 out of 5 girls laying now:

- Euskal oiloa: 23 weeks, 6 days (she recently laid 10 days in a row!)
- Swedish flower: 24 weeks
- Cream Legbar: 26 weeks, 5 days
- Welsummer: 26 weeks, 6 days
- Blue English Orpington: freeloader (girl hasn't even grown out her comb/wattles yet!)

edit: oops, 5 pullets not 6.

 

[chickadee5002]

e  5 out of 6 girls laying now:

- Euskal oiloa: 23 weeks, 6 days (she recently laid 10 days in a row!)
- Swedish flower: 24 weeks
- Cream Legbar: 26 weeks, 5 days
- Welsummer: 26 weeks, 6 days
- Blue English Orpington: freeloader (girl hasn't even grown out her comb/wattles yet!)

Yay! Congrats!

 

[babowman3]

19 weeks! I had miscounted. Please soon!!

 

[KelsiNS]

Top row is my 31 week old Rhode Island Red(been laying every other day for nearly two weeks), middle is a 30 week old Australorp/Sumatra who lays 7 days and takes one day off. Yesterday, a 23 week old Red Star gave us the bottom egg!

Eta: 35 girls to go! I have one red star, one buffop, 3 cuckoo marans, 4 barred rocks, and a leghorn looking ready any day now!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Top row is my 31 week old Rhode Island Red(been laying every other day for nearly two weeks), middle is a 30 week old Australorp/Sumatra who lays 7 days and takes one day off. Yesterday, a 23 week old Red Star gave us the bottom egg!

Eta: 35 girls to go! I have one red star, one buffop, 3 cuckoo marans, 4 barred rocks, and a leghorn looking ready any day now!

Congrats!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Nice eggs and egg skelters!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Sorry it took me a while, but here are the eggs. The olive eggs are a bit more olive in person. The other 2 eggs are from my newest welsummer pullet. With those eggs, she just earned her spot in the breeding flock.

 

[NanaLynn]

Well I've miscounted and my flock is 19 weeks today not 17! The rooster started crowing. And all have been squatting except the EEs, but they are to skiddish to tell. Gonna put some golf balls in the nest boxes!!

Yours are squatting even sooner then mine did. Mine started squatting around 20 1/2 weeks. But only 3 of them and they still have not laid eggs yet, only my one light brown leghorn is laying of my 22 week old chickens. At least I have my older hens laying still, so we're getting some eggs at least. 2 to 4 a day now.

I have freeloaders. Nuttin' yet. Lost track of how many weeks - 23? Something like that. Hecate, the barred rock, is very red in her comb and around her face. Hattie, the EE, is still pale pink.

My BA and and my other leghorn are bright red and still no eggs. Funny thing is two of the ones squatting, a CM and RSL still have small pinkish combs. Either their confused or I am or both of us!

I have 19 freeloaders out of my 22 chickens!

Oooh, I like it in red. Black is probably better for my kitchen, though, since I have red walls.

Why, thank you very much!

I only know how many weeks because I wrote it on the calendar. 24 weeks old today. Nine chickens, and only one's laying. She's not laying in the nest boxes - she's laid all five of her eggs underneath the boxes. I have plastic Easter eggs in the boxes - do you think they're too light weight? Should I use golf balls or wooden eggs instead? I'm worried that all the others will follow her lead and no one will lay in the boxes!

I love the red, but my kitchen is white and brown, so it needed a little pop of color! Now if the girls would just fill up the skelter for me!

I have a $1 planner calendar that I bought at Target last year just for tracking my chickens. I keep track of almost everything dealing with them on it, egg counts, hatch days, etc.

I have wooden eggs in 3 boxes and 1 golf ball in another box. When my BR laid her eggs on the floor, I messed up her floor nest and put some wire where it was, she then moved to another location and I kept that up everyday until almost the whole coop floor was covered in the wire pieces. She finally after there was no space on the floor laid in the nest box, but it took a couple of weeks. She always lays in the boxes now and all the wire is removed from the floor. You can put bricks or wood or anything to discourage her laying an egg there.

4 out of 5 girls laying now:

- Euskal oiloa: 23 weeks, 6 days (she recently laid 10 days in a row!)
- Swedish flower: 24 weeks
- Cream Legbar: 26 weeks, 5 days
- Welsummer: 26 weeks, 6 days
- Blue English Orpington: freeloader (girl hasn't even grown out her comb/wattles yet!)

edit: oops, 5 pullets not 6.

Nice! Congrats!!!

19 weeks! I had miscounted. Please soon!!

Pretty girls. The eggs will be soon! Your RSL looks more ready then mine and she is 22 weeks. Mine is squatting, but yours has a much bigger comb then mine!

Top row is my 31 week old Rhode Island Red(been laying every other day for nearly two weeks), middle is a 30 week old Australorp/Sumatra who lays 7 days and takes one day off. Yesterday, a 23 week old Red Star gave us the bottom egg!

Eta: 35 girls to go! I have one red star, one buffop, 3 cuckoo marans, 4 barred rocks, and a leghorn looking ready any day now!

Nice color, my RIR lays a lighter egg. Love that deep brown in the RSL egg!

Sorry it took me a while, but here are the eggs. The olive eggs are a bit more olive in person. The other 2 eggs are from my newest welsummer pullet. With those eggs, she just earned her spot in the breeding flock.

Love those EE eggs! My older EE is back to squatting, I hope we get her pretty green eggs again soon. I don't blame you, that Welsummer of yours lays a beautiful egg! I hope my marans lay some that dark!