Great weekend for eggs and chicks!

[Emilys3guppies]

My girls have FINALLY started laying.
In my one cage there is a male with a single female (who will be moved in the middle of the night tonight into a new cage with 4 female). But that female is one I hatched. She laid her first egg last night, at 7 weeks old. She laid her second egg 12 hours later...it was there when I checked on them this morning!

The third, and final, egg came from my cage of 6 jumbo hens, who are 13 weeks old.

Here's a pic. The all-white egg came from my 7 week old first, then came the brown marble egg. The speckled egg is from my 13 week old.

Can I add about my new chicks? I know some were discussing the comparable qualities of serama and coturnix. I picked up two serama chicks last night! A midnight rendezvous with a member of the Canadian chicken underground...lol. My husband thinks I'm crazy because I now not only get chicks from farmers markets, in the mail and at auctions, but I get them in dark TSC parking lots at midnight.

The smaller one is 2 weeks old, the larger brown one is 3 weeks old.

Thanks for letting me share!
Emily

 

[canter6]

That's a very strange egg line up for me. Except for the far right one. I know that one.

I need to do some "serama" research.

Please do not place your person at risk! Ever Emily!

 

[Emilys3guppies]

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Oh no! Not at risk! I would never travel alone and took every precaution. Don't worry! The only reason I make light of it is because I know I was safe.

Now riddle me this: that same pullet went and laid a shell-less egg. Actually, she laid it in two parts. A yolk with a membrane. A white with a membrane. No shell anywhere to be seen, just the two seperate peices of the egg. Very bizarre! Do you think she'll ever get the hang of it?

 

[canter6]

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Oh no! Not at risk! I would never travel alone and took every precaution. Don't worry! The only reason I make light of it is because I know I was safe.

Now riddle me this: that same pullet went and laid a shell-less egg. Actually, she laid it in two parts. A yolk with a membrane. A white with a membrane. No shell anywhere to be seen, just the two seperate peices of the egg. Very bizarre! Do you think she'll ever get the hang of it?

Sorry to be a poppa roo, but as long as you are safe, that's all on that.

It's been my experience that young hens can lay any kind of egg. With or without a shell, though shell-less eggs for me usually happen in older hens with other problems, and I have never had a totally white/blueish egg ever. I have (Missed eggs) that could be shell-less eggs and are probably pecked apart/eaten and stomped through the wire into the poo pile.

7 week old hen....Let her develop. She may or may not get the hang of it, and 10 week old birds taste just as fine.

 

[Emilys3guppies]

Quote:
Oh no! Not at risk! I would never travel alone and took every precaution. Don't worry! The only reason I make light of it is because I know I was safe.

Now riddle me this: that same pullet went and laid a shell-less egg. Actually, she laid it in two parts. A yolk with a membrane. A white with a membrane. No shell anywhere to be seen, just the two seperate peices of the egg. Very bizarre! Do you think she'll ever get the hang of it?

Sorry to be a poppa roo, but as long as you are safe, that's all on that.

It's been my experience that young hens can lay any kind of egg. With or without a shell, though shell-less eggs for me usually happen in older hens with other problems, and I have never had a totally white/blueish egg ever. I have (Missed eggs) that could be shell-less eggs and are probably pecked apart/eaten and stomped through the wire into the poo pile.

7 week old hen....Let her develop. She may or may not get the hang of it, and 10 week old birds taste just as fine.

Got a normal egg out of her today.
All my older quail started laying no problem...no white eggs or shell-less eggs. LOL. I'm in it for the eggs...so I'm glad she started laying normal eggs or she'd have been dinner too.

All the best,
Emily