First EGG! Whodunnit.

[black_cat]

Anyone else have Orps or Dominiques? Pics of eggs?

Looks like my friend's orp's eggs, and the ones from google.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

No, I do believe it was the Orp, in seriousness.
My BO lay eggs like that.
While I haven't had Doms.

Cool. She’s a devil, but at least she’s earning her keep now.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

@Overo Mare

 

[The Happster]

Cool. She’s a devil, but at least she’s earning her keep now.

Do not talk about Buff Orps in that manner while Rooster is present.
You have severely wounded me.

 

[Eggscaping]

First egg! So happy.View attachment 2304305
I am on vacation, and my friend doesn‘t know who did such a thing.
I have 6 birds, two ruled out because they are EEs, and one EE isn’t even squatting.
Then two Dominiques, one SS (unlikely, she JUST started squatting and is still pale-faced.) And a Buff Orp.
Who did it?
The egg is light brown-cream and a moderate size for a first.

We just had our first egg, too. I can tell you exactly who laid it... Ask your friend which bird runs around singing the egg song. Our Easter Egger Glynnis, was SO loud and the egg song is nothing like any other noises they'd made. And she kept it up for almost an hour!!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

We just had our first egg, too. I can tell you exactly who laid it... Ask your friend which bird runs around singing the egg song. Our Easter Egger Glynnis, was SO loud and the egg song is nothing like any other noises they'd made.

Lol! I’ll ask if anyone was loud. She found the egg in the tractor. She was there I don’t think.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Do not talk about Buff Orps in that manner while Rooster is present.
You have severely wounded me.

Well, if you had this bird, you surely would agree.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

She said the EE who squats was being loud when she took out the BO for a “taming session’.
But they are closely bonded, so that’s actually normal. She said it sounded like ‘bwaaaaaaaaaah’. Bwaaaaaaaaah!’
So, we don’t know.

 

[NatJ]

If your friend is willing to pick up each chicken, you might have the answer pretty soon.

A pullet who is not laying will have a vent (hole the eggs come out) that is small and puckered up. On each side of the vent, but a tiny bit lower down, there is the pointy end of a bone. It's easy to feel with the fingers. Those bone ends are close together (Put a fingertip on each one, and the fingers almost touch.)

When a pullet is laying, the vent looks larger and stretchier (which you would expect, if an egg goes through each day!) Those bone ends are also much farther apart. (Put a fingertip on each bone, and there's room for several more fingers to fit in between. Distance varies a little by size of hen, and by what size eggs she lays.)

Just picking up each chicken and checking the vent and those bones will usually give the answer.

When I first looked at a chicken's butt, I had no idea if she was laying or not. But once I had seen both a layer and a not-layer, the difference was pretty obvious. And after that I could re-check the first few, and figure them out too.

 

[The Happster]

She said the EE who squats was being loud when she took out the BO for a “taming session’.
But they are closely bonded, so that’s actually normal. She said it sounded like ‘bwaaaaaaaaaah’. Bwaaaaaaaaah!’
So, we don’t know.

I'd like to have seen that chicken impression.
Tell her to feel the pelvic bones?