How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[SkyAJK]

Got 3 eggs, one from each chicken, even the one with crossed beak. She is the most inconsistent one but she tends to lay the largest eggs.

Good on her, she is not consistent but definitely the winter with big egg. Might be she just save it for the big one. Sweet girl.

 

[PatriciafromCO]

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[PatriciafromCO]

A coop camera might help. Maybe you have an egg eater, i.e. rat, snake, possum or chicken?

they have many of the mini (spy) type cameras that run off of SD cards and battery that are not expensive that could be a quick set up for you.

 

[Nym]

0 for a week or so now from my blody birds. What is the deal! I'm not sure I'm in it for only the 'love' anymore. The plan was to have eggs enough for my son's family and myself

 

[Ponypoor]

I love having mother hen sitting on her eggs and raising chicks. They are so adorable beyond anything! Love it and love it!!

My excessively broody Wyandotte Pretty spring 2023 did sit on 2 eggs, hatched out 2 beautiful babies, raised them with love then pecked at them badly to kick them out at just 5 weeks. I took over after that.

Then 2024 spring Pretty did it again, with 1 egg and a beautiful chick, this time it lasted 6 weeks, and she was growling first for many days before she nastily peck at her kid to kick it out. I took over this one also.

Pretty had been mother hen from A-Z twice already. It is other's turn for motherhood. For now, no more hatching as I have 13 which is all I can manage.

The reason Pretty was mother hen in 2 consecutive years is that she came to me at 6 months with a friend she grew up with, the next day I found out her friend is a late boomer rooster, I returned him, she was so sad, did not or drink, a nervous headless chicken.

Pretty took sometime to bond with an older Wyandotte Meta she was housed with. Meta stood by her side while she was struggling to lay her first egg. Pretty was so loved by Meta and they were always together. As fate had it, Meta passed away after their short happiness, so Pretty was alone again,she does not bond with anyone else in the flock. I let her be mother hen twice with the hope that she creates her own flock with her kids, but that failed on both attempted. Her kids always stand near her or close enough not to get peck at by her.

She is broody so many times this spring, now summer we are in. Broody and molting at the same time. Still not bond with anyone in the flock. I love her very much and feeling her loss as well.

Awww poor wee mama - sounds like she really is not sure about what she really should do! My hens hang onto their kids for about 3 months - silkies are just baby crazy.

 

[Ponypoor]

0 for a week or so now from my blody birds. What is the deal! I'm not sure I'm in it for only the 'love' anymore. The plan was to have eggs enough for my son's family and myself

I’d send you some of mine…. If I could…

 

[Ponypoor]

A bakers dozen…. Except for the slight issue with the one in my pocket this morning. So an even dozen when all is said and done.

Have a fabulously fun Friday or if on the other side of this marble a superbly supreme Saturday!

 

[Nym]

Awww poor wee mama - sounds like she really is not sure about what she really should do! My hens hang onto their kids for about 3 months - silkies are just baby crazy.

Betty frizzle was, still is, a great mother to her two Pekin daughters. She has yet to go broody this season, which is also unlike her. I wish she would cos I have my eye on a local Australorp breeder offering fertile eggs.

Gumtree AU

 

[Ponypoor]

Betty frizzle was, still is, a great mother to her two Pekin daughters. She has yet to go broody this season, which is also unlike her. I wish she would cos I have my eye on a local Australorp breeder offering fertile eggs.

Gumtree AU

My lavender Orp would love to still hang with her mama, but she is a brat and picks at my old Roos pin feathers coming in, causing them to bleed like crazy! So she gets to stay with the main gang. The old Roo and his ladies are sequestered in the Summer House, my catch all coop/run for babies, elderly and Roos needing protection!

I don’t hatch eggs too hard to deal with unwanted cockerels. As it is my silkie pullet whom I gave the silkie chicks to, is likely brooding two cockerels with my luck.

 

[Ponypoor]

Betty frizzle was, still is, a great mother to her two Pekin daughters. She has yet to go broody this season, which is also unlike her. I wish she would cos I have my eye on a local Australorp breeder offering fertile eggs.

Gumtree AU

Gosh those chicks are adorable - are they the blue variety then?