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I squeezed an egg out of my chicken...

Discussion in 'Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying' started by Camelot Farms, Dec 2, 2009.

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  1. Dec 2, 2009 #1
    Camelot Farms

    Camelot Farms Chickenista

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    Yesterday my Serama pullet was sitting by her pen door looking sort of lost and forelorn. So, I reached in and picked her up. She looked at me funny and just let her head hang back like she was stunned.

    Hm. Weird I thought and went to put her back down. Just as she got her feet on the ground...PLOP. Out popped her very first egg!

    I have milked cows but never squeezed an egg out of a chicken... til now. [​IMG]
     

  4. Dec 2, 2009 #2
    silkiechick236

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  6. Dec 2, 2009 #3
    Luke0987654321

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    that has happened to me on many ocasions!
    one hen of mine whenever she needs to lay an
    egg and i'm around she comes and sits on my lap
    and lays her egg and the just walks off as
    if nothing had happened!

    luke.
     
  8. Dec 2, 2009 #4
    Princess Amri

    Princess Amri Is Mostly Harmless

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    [​IMG] Chickens are funny!
     
  10. Dec 2, 2009 #5
    RevaVirginia

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    As I scanned down the main page list of forum topics and then made my way through I couldn't wait to get to this post. I love true confessions... [​IMG]
     
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  12. Dec 2, 2009 #6
    ProductionRed09

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    I am now going out to my coop and I will squeeze all the freeloaders and see if eggs pop out of them...I have 40 freeloaders [​IMG]
     
  14. Dec 2, 2009 #7
    LarryPQ

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    OMG!!! It is like you are a the "hitter" for a loan shark!!!!
     

  17. Dec 2, 2009 #8
    onthespot

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    LOL that is funny! I have this splash marans I hatched from bishopschickens, and she is the FUNNIEST hen ever. I will go sit in their run on an upside down tub and she will come and give me that cockeyed look and I will pick her up, hug her like a big puppy dog, pat her on her back like we are long lost buddies, cup my hand over her comb and shake her head gently, tug a few times on her tail and just generally harass her for a few seconds, then toss her down about three feet away. She turns around, comes right back, and if I ignore her she will sometimes hop up on my knee and give me more angled looks until I do it to her again. She is not egg squatting when I do this, so it doesn't seem to be breeding behavior, she just likes getting "vigourous" loves from me, LOL. I REALLY like that pullet and hope to raise some more like her pretty soon! She's the best. Glad your gal got that egg out. The first one's probably the hardest I would think, all things being equal. That doesn't count for double yolkers and some of those butt busters I have seen posted here on BYC.
     
  19. Dec 2, 2009 #9
    Happy Chooks

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    Hey, I've done that too!


    I was checking my BR because she just didn't seem right. While I was holding her and checking her over, I hear this plop sound. I looked down and she laid a soft shelled egg. (it was her 2nd egg)

    Then I put her down and grabbed the egg as fast as I could, since the others were on it like flies on manure. So now I had warm, gooey egg running through my fingers.
     
  21. Dec 2, 2009 #10
    Uzuri

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    OK, I'm heading to the coop right now to do some squeezing! We've joked about this for months, but I never knew it worked! [​IMG]

    *runs off with crazy glint in her eyes*
     
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