First Egg Countdown

[Pele]

Your birds are all so pretty! I'm so happy you're keeping your roo. I couldn't keep mine, but I did give him a nice home in the countryside.

Welcome to the thread!

 

[confusedturtle]

Thank you, I am going to do my best to keep him. The deal we had with our neighbors was that there would be no loud chickens and no roos. I have told her that he is a rooster and she said as long as he isnt too loud and she gets free eggs she doesn't care. I have been reading online about different ways to keep roo's from crowing until your ready, so as long as he isn't too loud I think we will be able to keep him.

fingers crossed

 

[wowmanacat]

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My coop is right at 100 ft from my back door and when I have a rooster I could hardly hear him, and I live in a trailer house.

 

[tbonekel]

Love reading this thread! Here are a couple of pics of some chickens getting closer. They are just about 18 weeks old. Haven't really paid much attention to the nests yet, but I'm hoping soon.

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

My dominiques hatched on Jan. 27 2011. I have 3 of the freeloaders. And no eggs from any of them yet.

 

[ronott1]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

My dominiques hatched on Jan. 27 2011. I have 3 of the freeloaders. And no eggs from any of them yet.

Hi,

This is from en Wikipedia:

Dominiques are quite distinctive in appearance. They have a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers (a pattern called "barring" or sometimes "hawk coloring"). The breed matures quickly, producing eggs at about six months of age.

They are six months old today?

Should have eggs from them soon.

Ron​

 

[kera!]

I have 14 chickens that are 18 weeks 3 days today,, I am driving myself crazy looking for eggs all day.. listening for the egg song... I think the RIR will be first followed by the LGHT brn Leghorn...
but I have one each of these breeds
GLW
SLW
Columbian W
Light Brahma
Light brown Leghorn
Cuckoo Marans
RIR
White Cochin
Barred Rock
Partridge Rock
BA
BJG
BO
SS

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Quote:
Hi,

This is from en Wikipedia:

Dominiques are quite distinctive in appearance. They have a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers (a pattern called "barring" or sometimes "hawk coloring"). The breed matures quickly, producing eggs at about six months of age.

They are six months old today?

Should have eggs from them soon.

Ron

Thanks for that, Ron...I'm just frustrated. In a way, these will be my "first eggs"... they will be the first eggs from chickens I actually hatched. All of my other layers came as adults, or close to it. 2 of the 3 honestly look like they should have been laying for a month already!!! But they are in a covered run/coop, so there is no way they could be hiding eggs anywhere...

 

[desides]

3 weeks to go!!!! So darn excited!!!!

 

[chickenstew]

Here is Red on 7/15

Here she is today, 12 days later.

I was gone for 5 days and her comb/wattles grew like crazy AND she squatted for me this morning...so excited!