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[hbeam21]

I recently moved my birds around because I needed to empty a couple of the coops to move the older chicks into and the younger chicks into others that the older chicks were in and since moving many of the birds around to different coops and pens some want to either lay on the floor of their coop or on the ground. I think they are rebelling from being moved around.

You could be right. Chickens are a lot smarter then people think. I trained mine to go into the coop with some fruit,vegetables or bread, when ever I want them to. My rooster will yell at the hens to get out of the coop, but they stay in the coop and eat all the goodies.

 

[hbeam21]

First egg!!!!!!!!!FINALLY! I need help though. I don't know which one of my girls laid it. I have a buff orp and an Austrolorp/black star mix but the egg is weird. It has a Greenish spot on it.
Also, is it OK to eat this egg if it had been left out in the heat for a day or two?sunlight

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I would trash the egg, if you don't know when she made it. My buff chickens make brown eggs. Cool looking color for an egg.

 

[poppycock1974]

I would trash the egg, if you don't know when she made it.  My buff chickens make brown eggs.  Cool looking color for an egg.  

I found bits of an egg earlier when I cleaned the coop so I'm thinking it was Saturday's egg and they ate it so the one I found early this afternoon had to be from this morning. I don't think my buff is laying yet. I did the squat test and only my mix bird is squatting but not sure how accurate that is.

 

[chickrunfun]

First egg!!!!!!!!!FINALLY! I need help though. I don't know which one of my girls laid it. I have a buff orp and an Austrolorp/black star mix but the egg is weird. It has a Greenish spot on it.
Also, is it OK to eat this egg if it had been left out in the heat for a day or two?sunlight

I sometimes don't get around to getting Jeanie's egg till late afternoon or the next AM. She's like a Swiss clock/chicken hybrid...always lays an egg by 10:00 AM without fail.
My understanding is if there's a question bopping around your head about your egg, put it in a bowl of cold water so the whole egg's in the water. If it sinks, it's good, if it floats kind of on it's side it's old or might maybe be bad. I been told by our one chicken friend that's been into breeding and selling for 20 years that once you get them wet, and handle them or wash them, you basically wash or rub away the bloom it's called, or the layer that covers the shell that keeps it safe from nest germs and bacteria from getting INTO the egg. We don't wash ours half the time, but we don't really "store them" long enough to worry either...they get eaten oh boy do they!

 

[poppycock1974]

So I leave at 1 today and no egg all morning. I get back at 3 and there's two eggs (one cracked a bit) both are the same color. I have a BO that should be laying and what I thought was an Austrolorp/black star laying. I don't understand why the eggs look exactly the same.

 

[hbeam21]

So I leave at 1 today and no egg all morning. I get back at 3 and there's two eggs (one cracked a bit) both are the same color. I have a BO that should be laying and what I thought was an Austrolorp/black star laying. I don't understand why the eggs look exactly the same.

That looks close in color to my Easter Egger. She always lays pretty green eggs. It is fun to find out who is laying which egg. I would go out in the morning when they first started laying, to find out who was laying which egg. It was easy for me, I only have seven hens right now. I want to get a couple more, soon.

 

[cmom]

So I leave at 1 today and no egg all morning. I get back at 3 and there's two eggs (one cracked a bit) both are the same color. I have a BO that should be laying and what I thought was an Austrolorp/black star laying. I don't understand why the eggs look exactly the same.

If you have a game camera, set it up and you will see. I have done that before when wondering who layed what.

 

[LaurelTree]

What sort of information should be provided on an advertisement for a clutch of seven, two week old chicks? These will be tacked in our local feed and seed store and TSC.

 

[poppycock1974]

If you have a game camera, set it up and you will see. I have done that before when wondering who layed what.

I don't, I do have A video baby monitor in there but it's live. I thought if they were laying eggs it was usually done before 10 AM so when I didn't see any eggs I figured I could leave and check later in the evening. Nope- they are messing with me! unless one can lay 2 eggs in a two hour time frame they are laying identical eggs at the same time.

 

[cmom]

What sort of information should be provided on an advertisement for a clutch of seven, two week old chicks? These will be tacked in our local feed and seed store and TSC.

Exactly what you have and how much you want for them and your contact information. I have put up signs in our local TSC. We also have monthly Farm Swaps.