Isn't It Too Early For Eggs?

[TarheelBirdy]

Neither are mine......I was taking it personally at first .

 

[bargain]

Neither are mine......I was taking it personally at first .

I take it personally when they are laying so early...LOL But I am guessing that they will quit early.... Yes, I think my Husband is kept by guineas....Lol, he did a secret hatch (first time that man ever failed to tell me a secret or that I found out....LOL. He's a wonderful man, I'm truly blessed but I still remember when we had roughly 200 keets on the porch.....Talk about me not being happy.... I think I could sleep very well to crickets, but 200 keets, no..... We're busy determining where all the keets will be kept this year...

The guineas are so busy all the time. I absolutely crack up watching them run and fly. I feel sorry for their young though, because like on day two the moms are like, move it along little ones ...... and with the wet grass even in the warm south, I go out and help rescue babies!!!! Well, I better get back to taxes, ugh, Have a blessed day. Nancy

 

[MiniHorses]

I'm in VA, just outside Suffolk & 50 miles from VA Beach....12 from NC border......we've had up & down weather but very warm this week. Only 5 guineas here, 2 hens. Got my first egg Sat, 4.6. Well, about 3 wks ago I did get a tan one in my hen house nest box in house next to guineas but, felt it was a weird chicken egg.....LOL.....since no other activity from the Gs.

BUT This Sat there was an off white egg,,,,,,,inside the open air house they have, in the corner and I was soooooooo happy & proud! Next day another! Yippee. Then next day, the eggs had been rolled out of their dugout bare nest. SAD -- then I find a kitten had pooped there and tried to cover with the nearby dirt. (An almost starved dead kitten had wandered in from who knows where the day before! It's being fed and going to a rehoming)

Back to my G girls......I clean up droppings and carefully scoot eggs back.....then I get egg 3 ! I am elated but, doesn't last long, later 2 of 3 were rolled out again. I'm thinking chickens are getting in there? who knows -- during day, nothing else around and kitten by then in large cage.
I lightly open another large, covered cage that is in the floor of this coop/shed for nesting and later in day see a G go in.........then non-stop buckwheating, and another goes in.......about 15 mins and both come out. after all wander off, I check and have a tan G egg in this cage. Could I ever be so lucky as to have BOTH hens use the the shed ??????? I'm praying this keeps up!

Doing happy dance as it's their shed and they roost at other end......wow, this could be great.
My first year with Gs. Hoping for a hatching, or two.

 

[bigdawg]

mine started laying this week. and there laying in the coop floor. yea no more hunting eggs.

 

[PeepsCA]

For now anyway bigdawg, lol enjoy it while it lasts... they will most likely start looking for well hidden places to lay if they are allowed to free range. I'd swear my girls purposely pick horrid places to lay like in the thistles and poison oak patches just to make life harder for me, lol.

 

[JLeigh]

For now anyway bigdawg, lol enjoy it while it lasts... they will most likely start looking for well hidden places to lay if they are allowed to free range. I'd swear my girls purposely pick horrid places to lay like in the thistles and poison oak patches just to make life harder for me, lol.

Of course they do, Peeps. I got a letter from one of your hens just the other day. She was asking me to forward her concerns to some of their offspring in what she termed "a faraway place" called "Freezer Camp".

Sorry. I'm in a very happy, (and yet still snarky) mood today. LOL. (just kidding with you). I've had a great day, in spite of the fact that NONE OF MY HENS ARE LAYING EGGS YET! What, am I going to have to light candles and pipe some Barry White out to the coop for them?

 

[PeepsCA]

Rofl... Barry White

You do want eggs this season, RIGHT?

 

[JLeigh]

Yeah, I want eggs, but it seems they're determined to NOT lay eggs. There's a little voice in the back of my head saying "Good luck with that!".

I know, I know......."Patience Grasshopper."

 

[PeepsCA]

I'm getting annoyed with my flock of young Chocolates and Blondes too at this point. I bet once they finally start to lay they will lay all the way thru Nov/Dec and I won't get much of a hatching break this season, lol. (My Hens usually quit in Sept after 3+ months of sweltering Summer heat finally wears them out). I added 4 more of my young Chocolate Hens to another flock a couple months ago, and a couple of them might have just started laying because I am getting a couple more smallish eggs each day. I can't tell who is laying in that flock tho... I never catch them in the act and they all have that "who me?" look when I go out to collect eggs, lol. All 14 Hens in that flock have well pronounced bustles... so it could be any of them. I guess I could catch them and drop some food coloring in their vents to see who is laying. Anybody wanna help?

LOL

 

[JLeigh]

I'm getting annoyed with my flock of young Chocolates and Blondes too at this point. I bet once they finally start to lay they will lay all the way thru Nov/Dec and I won't get much of a hatching break this season, lol. (My Hens usually quit in Sept after 3+ months of sweltering Summer heat finally wears them out). I added 4 more of my young Chocolate Hens to another flock a couple months ago, and a couple of them might have just started laying because I am getting a couple more smallish eggs each day. I can't tell who is laying in that flock tho... I never catch them in the act and they all have that "who me?" look when I go out to collect eggs, lol. All 14 Hens in that flock have well pronounced bustles... so it could be any of them. I guess I could catch them and drop some food coloring in their vents to see who is laying. Anybody wanna help?

LOL

I had to set 20 chicken eggs just to get a hatching fix. I just couldn't wait any longer. My hens' (guinea) bustles have been very pronounced now for over three weeks (about). I think I'm going to go out to the pen and squeeze those eggs out of 'em. So after I help you food color your hens' vents, you can come help me squeeze out some guinea eggs. LOL. It's not that far between CA and GA.