Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I wish really could have dropped in

Not to worry. He’s going to have another one in December (he gets two a year) to make up for all the years I missed.

 

[Ponypoor]

Not to worry. He’s going to have another one in December (he gets two a year) to make up for all the years I missed.

Defin going to have to win that lottery! Need to do all this travelling around it seems!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I think it is time I look back in my photo's to see the exact date I got the leghorns. One of them just came out of a porch box cackling like she laid a egg. No egg, but she is practicing already.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Just checked, they are 15 1/2 weeks old, surely they are not ready to lay this early.

 

[Ponypoor]

Just checked, they are 15 1/2 weeks old, surely they are not ready to lay this early.

I think my silkies were not much more than 16 weeks when they started laying eggs. I could be wrong as it was a couple yrs ago, but I was surprised when Henny Penny laid hers.

I was not expecting her to lay eggs before 20 weeks at least.

 

[notabitail]

Integration has begun. I do not think Agathae is too pleased.

 

[Ponypoor]

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Integration has begun. I do not think Agathae is too pleased.

Hope it goes smoothly

 

[RoyalChick]

Tomorrow Eli will have been broody for ten days.
I am going to start a conversation with her about how golf balls are well known to hatch much faster than regular chicken eggs, and so if she doesn’t have a clutch of little putters by the middle of next week it is time to call it a day.
She just went tut-tut-tut and ran straight back to her nest.
She is one crazy hen!

 

[Ponypoor]

Tomorrow Eli will have been broody for ten days.
I am going to start a conversation with her about how golf balls are well known to hatch much faster than regular chicken eggs, and so if she doesn’t have a clutch of little putters by the middle of next week it is time to call it a day.
She just went tut-tut-tut and ran straight back to her nest.
She is one crazy hen!
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I would remove the golf balls if you don’t want her to foster chicks removing them might encourage her to give up.

Or not …

 

[notabitail]

Hope it goes smoothly

Thank you!