First Egg Countdown

[Happy Chooks]

I have no idea why, but I love to pet broody hens, especially the little banty cochins that my friend owns. They are SO funny when they growl! I reassure them that I am very frightened, and and they are in no way adorable.

I'm really glad to hear your girls are doing better Destinidawn! You're doing a great job with them!

That works fine for the sweet broodies. But for the velociraptor broodies, you get this:



Dusty is mean as snot as a broody (super sweet girl when not broody) but she's an EXCELLENT mother:

 

[HappyHenMama]

That works fine for the sweet broodies. But for the velociraptor broodies, you get this:



Dusty is mean as snot as a broody (super sweet girl when not broody) but she's an EXCELLENT mother:

Yep, she looks like one serious Mom! Very cute little peeps though and Dusty is a beauty! Is she a BR?

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Ouch!

I have scratches from my little EO Basuqe cockerel, but they are not mean, they just like to grab onto my arm too hard. One of them has to take a ride with me when I feed and water them.

Too cute.



Ron

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yes, she's a BR from exhibition lines. (from kathyinmo here on BYC) She's serious as all get out about being a mom. This was her first time brooding, she's a year old. Touch her chicks and you'll lose an arm.

 

[Pele]

Ooo, you both have some pretty birds there! I love your Basque, Ron! And I always am facinated by show lines BRs, their bars are so military tidy!

So Butterscotch shocked me yesterday by laying again. I thought for sure she'd skip a day, all my other hens did after laying their first. We'll see if she goes again today.

Then again, I could be delusional. I'm having sleepless nights pacing back and forth in front of the brooder over some turkey eggs. For the life of me, I can't get them to hatch well. I would feel like a hatching failure if I hadn't been up to my ears in Faverolle chicks last February.

 

[ronott1]

Ooo, you both have some pretty birds there! I love your Basque, Ron! And I always am facinated by show lines BRs, their bars are so military tidy!

So Butterscotch shocked me yesterday by laying again. I thought for sure she'd skip a day, all my other hens did after laying their first. We'll see if she goes again today.

Then again, I could be delusional. I'm having sleepless nights pacing back and forth in front of the brooder over some turkey eggs. For the life of me, I can't get them to hatch well. I would feel like a hatching failure if I hadn't been up to my ears in Faverolle chicks last February.

Yes, the Basque are great and I am going to Breed them this fall!

I had shipped Dorking eggs that did nothing, not even to lockdown. 3 out of twelve started smelling like sulfur. Partridge Rock and RIR hatched together and I got one RIR. I locked down 7 GL Wyendottes and got 1 to hatch and three other pipped and dead.

My last hatch for the season is Heritage RIRs and I have 6 out of 14 hatched with one more pipped this morning.

I too would have thought I was a hatching failure, but I did hatch 11 out of 13 for the easter hatch. I also hatched 12 out of 12 to lockdown with local SG Dorkings. Crazy what happens with shipped egg sometimes.

Ron

 

[Happy Chooks]

So Butterscotch shocked me yesterday by laying again. I thought for sure she'd skip a day, all my other hens did after laying their first. We'll see if she goes again today.

Do we want to start taking bets on how long til she goes broody?

 

[destinidawn]

I thought my other gold sex link was getting really close to laying as she has been making some freakish noises. But today I realised she just likes my daughter. Haha she will screech and screech to get her attention then my daughter will walk by the run and the chicken will chase her back and forth. Its hilarious. Hopefully it still means eggs soon too as its new.

 

[destinidawn]

Ooooh today could be egg day.. My little Danish Brown Leghorn is the low woman on the totem pole. But after eating this morning she came out of the coop she is running back and forth in the run singing the egg song. HAHA at least if she lays the first egg when I am at work I will know who did. She is my only white egg layer and she is normally very quiet and kind of keeps to herself.

 

[Flowerbh]

How old is your leghorn. I have one, too. Got it by mistake, but my husband decided we needed at least one white egg layer. She was suppose to be a Speckled Sussex and we had named her Freckles, but now that she is a brown leghorn, we named her Plain Jane.