First Egg Countdown

[Rhandi74]

I am waiting on my girls who are 12 weeks old to get older so they will lay. I could not play the waiting game this long and now have 4 laying hens . Here are some of my girls that are making me play the waiting game.

I have 6 RSL'S, 1 barred rock, 1 barred rock mix, 3 OEGB, a cochin bantam, and a buff orpington bantam that I am waiting on.

My layers are a lavender Orpington, a LF cochin, and 2 leghorn mixes.
My cockerels are a LF cochin, a bantam cochin, and a OEGB .

Here are some of them.

 

[chicksurreal]

I am waiting on my girls who are 12 weeks old to get older so they will lay. I could not play the waiting game this long and now have 4 laying hens

. Here are some of my girls that are making me play the waiting game.







I have 6 RSL'S, 1 barred rock, 1 barred rock mix, 3 OEGB, a cochin bantam, and a buff orpington bantam that I am waiting on.

My layers are a lavender Orpington, a LF cochin, and 2 leghorn mixes.
My cockerels are a LF cochin, a bantam cochin, and a OEGB .

Here are some of them.

You have some very lovely girls!

 

[Junibutt]

Just wanted to share another JUMBO egg pic from my Red Star-Marcy. She normally lays 74 g eggs. This one was 106 g (3.8 oz). Here is a pic with some other eggs for comparison:

 

[chicksurreal]

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Wow!

 

[cwrite]

My pullets are 17 weeks old. The two Austrolorps (utility breed) are growing wattles & have red combs. The ISA brown is starting to go red and one of the Long Lays (Leghorn cross) is starting to grow her wattles. Hedwig is a funny looking pullet, because she never grew a comb. She just has a red stripe on her head. I may have a bit to wait, but I noticed one of the Austrolorps went into the coop on her own for a while today. Could she have been thinking about laying or am I reading too much into it? I've read that utility breeds lay earlier (which all of mine are) so I'm hoping I don't have too long to wait. I only have one nest in the run which is a converted small dog box. That should be ok for the next 3 weeks until I have more time to knock up a few nest boxes, I hope.

 

[mamaj323]

Well my babies are one week old! Only 20 or so weeks left! Let the countdown begin! Lol! I'm already excited to see the eggs from my mixed flock girls.

 

[LadyCluck77]

I kept three pullets from my Easter Hatch a Long chicks, two EE's and a Salmon Faverolles pullet. I know it will be quite a long time for these girls!

They are a little camera shy

 

[Happy Chooks]

I kept three pullets from my Easter Hatch a Long chicks, two EE's and a Salmon Faverolles pullet. I know it will be quite a long time for these girls!

They are a little camera shy

Pretty pullets!

I still have 26 of mine from the Easter hatch. Only 12 are pullets though.

 

[LadyCluck77]

Thanks Happy Chooks!

I do still have 13 HAL cockerels in the garden paddock, planning to sell them and keep one or two, every single black sex link I made turned out to be a boy... they are getting huge, it may be time to build another portable paddock.

 

[Smiling Angel]

We got our 5 chicks last March. We watched them grow, let our kids and dogs get to know them, and just took care of them for about 5 months. We had o idea when they would lay, so we weren't anxiously waiting for that first egg. Then one day, I went out to give them their morning feed and water, and I decided to look in the back of the coop, were we have the doors behind the nesting boxed, and was I surprised to find FIVE EGGS! Not sure if they layed them all that one day, because I wasn't sure if anyone checked for eggs the day before, but was thrilled to find the
eggs nonetheless! Here is a picture of our first eggs back on 9/15/13!