I'm never gonna get an egg!!!

[Crooked Chicken]

you gals are killin' me!

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.

Nope -- I think it's the other way around. Coin slot after they begin laying. I notice that my girls buttholes look like talking mouths every time they get touched there. hehehe

LOOK!!!! Ms. Bonnie finally gifted me with my first egg this afternoon!! And...she laid it in the nesting box!!! She is such a good girl!!

Congratulations -- that's a nice big egg!

That's nothing, Apryl. Don't ask me about the "terminal surgeries" we had to do in junior year (no, you really don't want to know. And I was the only one in my class of 106 who refused to kill pefectly healthy lab-bred beagles under anesthesia, after breaking their legs and attempting ortho surgery on them. I was ostracized and had to do two extra rotations to make up for my ethical stance).

Vet school, and the veterinary profession in general, is hell. I would not recommend it to anyone I care about. Like I always tell people considering to enter that profession, it ain't all Animal Planet.

My mom dissuaded me from the vet route when I was a kid, using the euthanasia example -- she was probably very right. Hearing your abbreviated stories, that would have been the least of my issues it seems.

We have NO vets within 100 miles who specialize in chickens. There's a vet tech 60 miles away who grew up on a poultry farm, and that office will attempt to treat your chicken, but they charge you at the price for "exotic" animals. Pretty much if something is amiss with the hens, we're on our own. Maybe that's for the best.

OMG I had no idea you had to do that in vet school. After high school I worked for the Humane Society for about a year as a kennel attendant. You know -- scooping poop and hosing down the dog kennels. I also had to assist the vet that put down the unadoptable. I hated taking them to the room. And then having to throw them in the freezer afterwards. Awful. I didn't last a year there. I took home a snake, brought my aunt some muscovy ducks and when I left I stole a cross eyed crooked tooth cat.

Totally OT (what else is new!)~

~but my husband ate his very-first farm-fresh eggs (3, from Big Bird) a little while ago.

I was expecting the heavens to open up, angels to sing, rainbow unicorns to dance around, etc. I had fried em up with taters (taters!) and toast. He did his weird little OCD thing that he does, eating all the egg whites first, in little Rain Man circles. Then after every bit of white was gone, he soaked up the beautiful orange yolks with his toast.

"Well?!" I kept asking, impatiently. "What do you think? Aren't they great?"

He looked at me, bewildered. "Um, they're softer than regular eggs. I think."

That's it? Really? He thinks the yolks are the same color, and didn't notice the incredibly fresh, protein-packed fresh flavor. I was like, "Come ON, it's like the difference between a store tomato and one out of your garden!"

He just came in the living room from renovating the bathroom, smirked at me on the laptop talking to you guys, and said in a singsong falsetto voice, "Dear Chicken Diary People, my husband ate his very first egg today, and said it was soft." LOL!!!! The man really knows me!

I can't believe he didn't say those eggs are so amazing and fresh! They taste like they just came out of a chickens butt. lol

Yeah...when I was about 12 I wanted to be a Vet. In my starry eyed youthful ignorance I wanted to help animals. I've always loved animals more than people. My family never understood that about me. As I got older the reality set in about what being a Vet would really be like and I knew that my heart was way too soft towards animals to do that job. I think it would have been a living hell because I don't think the good days could have made up for all of the sad awful days.

Exactly -- sounds like me to a tee

Storytime! I used to work with an older gentleman who always told me interesting stories. One of them was about a couple men who were pulling back a load in a carriage pulled by two horses. The one guy's lips were all chapped and the other guys weren't. The first guy asked the second guy why his lips weren't chapped and the 2nd guy took his finger and stuck it in the horses butt hole and then wiped it on his lips. The first guy looked at him in amazement and said that keeps your lips from getting chapped? And the second guy said I don't know but it keeps me from licking my lips.

 

[gonehencrazy]

My little Sapphire got attacked by my dogs on Friday. On Saturday she laid her first and only egg. She didn’t make it from her injuries. Found her dead this morning. So frustrating.

Still only one pullet laying out of five now. I’ve gotten a couple of small pink eggs but I think that’s one of my hens coming out of her molt. None of my pullets should lay that color.

 

[andreanar]

Oh Ive been laughing out loud while catching up here! I sure needed the lift this morning. I recently was taken out of work by my Dr, because my bones keep breaking. No one can figure out why. Of course, some people think I must have some dreaded chicken disease! So, I'm as broke as eggs laid on a poop board! Its getting me down.

Meanwhile, my run blew away in a wind storm and the ground turned into a mud wrestling pit! Plus I still have poor Lucy, the picked naked girl in lockdown from the others.

My sister and I have been working constantly, and got everything fixed up again. The mud is now all fixed too. We are the queens of doing things with no money! LOL

 

[apryl29]

you gals are killin' me!



Nope -- I think it's the other way around. Coin slot after they begin laying. I notice that my girls buttholes look like talking mouths every time they get touched there. hehehe



Congratulations -- that's a nice big egg!





OMG I had no idea you had to do that in vet school. After high school I worked for the Humane Society for about a year as a kennel attendant. You know -- scooping poop and hosing down the dog kennels. I also had to assist the vet that put down the unadoptable. I hated taking them to the room. And then having to throw them in the freezer afterwards. Awful. I didn't last a year there. I took home a snake, brought my aunt some muscovy ducks and when I left I stole a cross eyed crooked tooth cat.


I can't believe he didn't say those eggs are so amazing and fresh! They taste like they just came out of a chickens butt. lol



Exactly -- sounds like me to a tee

Stole a cat? LOL I'd love to have heard the conversation after they realized the cat was gone.. Either 'Eh, whatver.' or 'Should we call the police?' or 'Wow, that lady was crraaazzzyyy!'. Either way, great story!

My little Sapphire got attacked by my dogs on Friday. On Saturday she laid her first and only egg. She didn’t make it from her injuries. Found her dead this morning. So frustrating.

Still only one pullet laying out of five now. I’ve gotten a couple of small pink eggs but I think that’s one of my hens coming out of her molt. None of my pullets should lay that color.

I'm so sorry to hear about Sapphire. Was it that she got out or that the dog got in? Hopefully it doesn't happen again. Pink eggs?! I'm jealous! I've got several who seem to be going into a molt.. feathers all over. They picked a great time for it too [sarcasm].. it was a balmy 26 degrees this morning.

Oh Ive been laughing out loud while catching up here! I sure needed the lift this morning. I recently was taken out of work by my Dr, because my bones keep breaking. No one can figure out why. Of course, some people think I must have some dreaded chicken disease! So, I'm as broke as eggs laid on a poop board! Its getting me down.

Meanwhile, my run blew away in a wind storm and the ground turned into a mud wrestling pit! Plus I still have poor Lucy, the picked naked girl in lockdown from the others.

My sister and I have been working constantly, and got everything fixed up again. The mud is now all fixed too. We are the queens of doing things with no money! LOL

Wow, I hope they figure out what's going on w/ you that you keep breaking bones. Sometimes it's all about finding the right dr.
Glad you got your run fixed, probably better that it happened then instead of now with winter headed this way. It sounds like you've had a crazy couple of weeks. Hopefully there will be better news for you with this last bit of the year.

 

[Chickassan]

Well y'all I'm anxiously awaiting the verdict if one of my molters is going to lay or not. I saw the rooster lead her to the nest and she's in there now making a mountain around her butt, all signs point to egg but I've got crap luck so I'm not getting my hopes up. I'll know if she did or not, she's my only mint green layer.

 

[apryl29]

Well y'all I'm anxiously awaiting the verdict if one of my molters is going to lay or not. I saw the rooster lead her to the nest and she's in there now making a mountain around her butt, all signs point to egg but I've got crap luck so I'm not getting my hopes up. I'll know if she did or not, she's my only mint green layer.

That helps, I have several laying brown eggs and I can only tell who lays 2 of them. I have 1 I swear isn't laying, but she'll go and sit in the nest and act like she is. She'll be sitting there for the longest time, but there's never an egg. I've been getting 4 or 5 a day, usually in the morning and there's never one later in the day. Not sure if she is laying and it's taking longer than usual to make the egg b/c of less daylight, or if she's not laying, but thinks she should be.

 

[Chickassan]

I hope she lays,she actually lays normal egg sized eggs. The only other one laying is the dominicker and she lays little peanut eggs, it takes two to make anything with them. When or if those faverolles start laying I'll be confused they lay the same size/color as the dominicker.

That helps, I have several laying brown eggs and I can only tell who lays 2 of them. I have 1 I swear isn't laying, but she'll go and sit in the nest and act like she is. She'll be sitting there for the longest time, but there's never an egg. I've been getting 4 or 5 a day, usually in the morning and there's never one later in the day. Not sure if she is laying and it's taking longer than usual to make the egg b/c of less daylight, or if she's not laying, but thinks she should be.

 

[apryl29]

Is it a Dominique or a mixed breed? I thought the Dominique's laid reg size eggs... or is it just that she's a new layer so her eggs are still pretty small? My mom's been hoarding our colored eggs and went to boil them yesterday... several of them floated and I took them to feed to the girls. The eggs were soooo tiny! Probably from September.

 

[WVduckchick]

My little Sapphire got attacked by my dogs on Friday. On Saturday she laid her first and only egg. She didn’t make it from her injuries. Found her dead this morning. So frustrating.

Still only one pullet laying out of five now. I’ve gotten a couple of small pink eggs but I think that’s one of my hens coming out of her molt. None of my pullets should lay that color.

so sorry about Sapphire

Oh Ive been laughing out loud while catching up here! I sure needed the lift this morning. I recently was taken out of work by my Dr, because my bones keep breaking. No one can figure out why. Of course, some people think I must have some dreaded chicken disease! So, I'm as broke as eggs laid on a poop board! Its getting me down.

Meanwhile, my run blew away in a wind storm and the ground turned into a mud wrestling pit! Plus I still have poor Lucy, the picked naked girl in lockdown from the others.

My sister and I have been working constantly, and got everything fixed up again. The mud is now all fixed too. We are the queens of doing things with no money! LOL

Breaking bones? Ouch! Hope they figure that out, Be extra careful out there working on coops!

 

[Chickassan]

She's a full dominique, but they lay small eggs about the size of a regular egg in the store maybe a tad smaller. Smaller than the Easter eggers and waaay smaller than the Delaware. No egg yet btw she's still on her mountain.

Is it a Dominique or a mixed breed? I thought the Dominique's laid reg size eggs... or is it just that she's a new layer so her eggs are still pretty small? My mom's been hoarding our colored eggs and went to boil them yesterday... several of them floated and I took them to feed to the girls. The eggs were soooo tiny! Probably from September.