I'm never gonna get an egg!!!

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Yeah the stopped ones should, and i say should start back after the winter solstice and yep we will probably all get some fart eggs. I'm pretty sure they stop squatting when they aren't laying too. The only one getting any here is the dominicker that's laying and she's not getting much she's slick and her combs wonky so rooster slides off.:)
apryl29 said:
This morning I went to let my girls out and found Ziva sitting on the nest. She went outside and I was FINALLY able to identify who's laying the eggs w/ the brown spots on top. 4 down! Only 4 eggs so far today. When they stop laying, do they go through the same thing in the spring to restart laying as they do when they're new layers? Like do they stop squatting and submitting to mating when they aren't laying?
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I've been told a million times but I've got the memory of a senile chit house rat but it has something to do with jamming a finger between the buttbones and seeing if you could parallel park in the space? Quarter is probably for the meter! :lau
pitbullmomma said:
Pray tell kind madam,
How does one measure hen's butthole? (is it something to do with a quarter in a coin slot?):lau
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Chickassan said:
I've been told a million times but I've got the memory of a senile chit house rat but it has something to do with jamming a finger between the buttbones and seeing if you could parallel park in the space? Quarter is probably for the meter! :lau
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I'm so confused, lol.

Does two fingers = parallel parking? (cuz it's two parallel lines?)

And also, I thought (I'm probably totally off base here, but this is how my screwed-up mind works) that the quarter in the slot referred to the shape of said butthole after said hen started laying. Like, it's a slot instead of a hole. But now I'm thinking, maybe I'm backwards? Is it a slot shape first, and then a hole? Cuz an egg is round, so that makes more sense.

I swear to you all: They did not teach this in vet school. The most I got on chickens was a class where we all got a chicken, then learned to wring its neck, then dissected the still-warm chicken. I refused to kill my chicken. And if I did learn about butthole shapes, I was so traumatized by the whole thing that I immediately forgot it.
 
I figured it out. Big Bird (my white Silkie) is my mystery layer, for sure!

I did not look at her bung, recently. However, she has been so sweet. She hunches down and lets me pet her all the time, where as before, she would mostly run in horror. And she keeps going in the coop when I go behind it to get feed (it opens into a shed). This morning, she kept going in the first nest box and fluffing her bedding around, making little noises. Then when I got home from work, there was a pretty little cream-colored egg in there! So, it's not from Flower's flower, after all.

Also, she is looking/feeling a little thin (is that normal when they start laying? I've been giving her extra scratch and mealworms, yes she's been getting oyster shell, and I'm in the process of switching over to layer).

She is so sweet! My little eggbutt! :)
 
Lol! It's a slot that becomes a hole. Kinda like a mouth on a butt. Mouth closed slot, mouth open hole. Gross description i sincerely apologize. :lau
pitbullmomma said:
I'm so confused, lol.

Does two fingers = parallel parking? (cuz it's two parallel lines?)

And also, I thought (I'm probably totally off base here, but this is how my screwed-up mind works) that the quarter in the slot referred to the shape of said butthole after said hen started laying. Like, it's a slot instead of a hole. But now I'm thinking, maybe I'm backwards? Is it a slot shape first, and then a hole? Cuz an egg is round, so that makes more sense.

I swear to you all: They did not teach this in vet school. The most I got on chickens was a class where we all got a chicken, then learned to wring its neck, then dissected the still-warm chicken. I refused to kill my chicken. And if I did learn about butthole shapes, I was so traumatized by the whole thing that I immediately forgot it.
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Chickassan said:
@pitbullmomma, Big Bird should have packed on a little extra before she started laying so she's probably depleted her hormonal fat store. Give her some boiled egg yolk every once in a while it's full of good fats. Just keep an eye on the little thing silkies are absolutely nutty once they start laying. :)
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Thank you! Can I give her a whole chopped up egg? (running off to boil one right now!)

What do you mean by nutty? I mean, I know they can go broody...what else?
 

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