First Egg Countdown

[onfurtherreview]

What's the earliest anyone's heard of a hen laying? I got this from a pullet who is only 5-6 WEEKS OLD and isn't even fully feathered:


She's a Production Red from Tractor Supply, bought April 4 from a batch they got in around April 2. I've named her Sweet Tater, both for her coloring and the shape of her pitiful little egg, but I'm sure she'll figure out what shape to make them eventually.

 

[redrstr29]

Fing I got 7 eggs today, someone else started I have no Idea who!!!

Onfurtherreview: OMG never heard of that and Ive had em for 10 years, ...does it have a shell, what are they eating lol!!??

 

[fingbob]

What's the earliest anyone's heard of a hen laying? I got this from a pullet who is only 5-6 WEEKS OLD and isn't even fully feathered:


She's a Production Red from Tractor Supply, bought April 4 from a batch they got in around April 2. I've named her Sweet Tater, both for her coloring and the shape of her pitiful little egg, but I'm sure she'll figure out what shape to make them eventually.

That is interesting! Can't wait to here how something like that would happen!

 

[onfurtherreview]

Onfurtherreview: OMG never heard of that and Ive had em for 10 years, ...does it have a shell, what are they eating lol!!??

It had a somewhat thin but hard shell, a thick membrane, and no yolk - I blew the contents out into a bowl, and I'm going to dry and bleach the shell and fill it with wax as a conversation piece. They're on mixed-flock crumble, and grazing part-time in a forage plot I sowed with Throw-n-Grow deer plot seed about a month ago, eating their share of kitchen scraps, a bit of three-grain scratch, and I clean out the bottom of the bug zapper into their pen regularly. I spread about a pint of granite grit and a pint of oyster shell around the pen too, since I let the big birds into the feed plot sometimes too. My stepdad's parents had commercial egg-layers in the '50s-60s, and he had never heard of one starting so early either.

 

[redrstr29]

I have never heard of this either lol.....I cant even find it on google, (ive looked for ya), as long as the chicks are lookin good, your doin everything fine!!!, Its obviously a wierd repeoductive thing!! hopefully nothing wierd like a cyst.. Keep us updated if anthingelse oddpops out lol!!

 

[onfurtherreview]

I have never heard of this either lol.....I cant even find it on google, (ive looked for ya), as long as the chicks are lookin good, your doin everything fine!!!, Its obviously a wierd repeoductive thing!! hopefully nothing wierd like a cyst.. Keep us updated if anthingelse oddpops out lol!!

I'll be keeping a close eye on little Sweet Tater from now on, and will update if she does it again. I figure it was just a one-off, and that she'll wait until a more sane age to start up on a regular basis, but then again only time will tell...

 

[Happy Chooks]

It's just a malshaped fart egg. I'm getting quite a few of them from an older hen that is having reproductive issues.

onfurtherreview - are you sure it's from the young pullet and not an older hen?

Here was one of mine:



And it was open on the tip:

 

[redrstr29]

Ive seen those fart eggs many times too Happy Chooks...but this is from a 6 week old lol..... Thats the wierd thing!!

Good point thought I wonder if there were some old girls around

 

[onfurtherreview]

It's just a malshaped fart egg. I'm getting quite a few of them from an older hen that is having reproductive issues.

onfurtherreview - are you sure it's from the young pullet and not an older hen?

The only way it could be from anything but one of the little pullets is if one of the old girls has learned to walk through walls.

 

[redrstr29]

The only way it could be from anything but one of the little pullets is if one of the old girls has learned to walk through walls.

....Well my g/f been trying to get me too walk into one!!!! lol