Someone else mentioned that and shared pics of their BEAUTIFUL blue copper marans... it seems like Zoingo is a little "lighter" in the gray areas, and no feather leggies for her, either! I had no idea blue copper marans existed until recently. They are quite lovely!
We NEED to see a pic of that bad boy!!!!!!! WOW that is just HUGE! I could not imagine!Well Annabelle did another 3 in a row instead of her normal 2 days in a row! And today she went in the coop a few times but I wasn't expecting her to lay but I kept peeking, then one of the times I saw her jump out of the box so zoomed in and thought it was an egg in there but thinking it may have been a shaving so looked at video of when she went in and it was only like 5-8 min before she jumped out so figured it wasn't an egg but went to check anyways. Imagine my surprise that it was an egg! that was FAST! LOL And Hummer took 2 days off so far..... instead of her every other day. She went from 6 in a row (the very rare 7 in a row) to now every other day or less. The other girls are still going strong.
WOW!!! How very efficient of her! And how wonderful that all 3 girls gave you eggs today
They usually start to lay a bit on the later side than most breeds, right? Have they shown any interest in the coop/nest boxes at all?
Wow so pretty and massive!!!! Wow moons are 57g? Nice, they have gotten so big.WOW!!! How very efficient of her! And how wonderful that all 3 girls gave you eggs today
They usually start to lay a bit on the later side than most breeds, right? Have they shown any interest in the coop/nest boxes at all?
Here is a pic of today's eggs with Zoingos new monster egg
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Zoingos egg next to Moon's (57g)egg today
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And the giant egg trying to camouflage itself in the egg basket... its not working LOL
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Uff. I totally misread! Was thinking Hummer and Nugget laid the 48 and 49g! Oopsie. Annabelle has such a good size egg already!
I feel like there is nothing "off topic" in this thread at this point hahahaha. I love it.
Honestly at this point I think Marshmallow and Rosie are going to wait until the days get longer again. I just happened to be in the run with them and she got close enough for me to grab her so I figured why not. haahaa. But I haven't been "waiting" for them or anything. I figure they are going to freeload for another couple of months. Same with Ditzy and Fajita since they show zero signs of being any where near close. They have like zero wattles and not much of a comb still. LOL But hey that is ok at least then I will have them all laying at different times so maybe they will lay a bit longer than the others etc.Uff. I totally misread! Was thinking Hummer and Nugget laid the 48 and 49g! Oopsie. Annabelle has such a good size egg already!
Zoingo lays 70g normally, Moon and Sunny have slowly been getting bigger in the high 50s, and Silver and Blackie's eggs are low 60s.
The other girls are mostly still hanging out in the low to mid 40s range.
I wonder if Marshmallow will make a surprise egg when you don't expect it... it might be less torturous than anticipating it nonstop.
Catelyn (Prairie Bluebell Egger) has been teasing me terribly. She has for over a month now been going in and out of nest boxes and spends SO MUCH TIME in the coop everyday. Everytime I see it I'm like... just stay in there and lay an egg pleaseeeee just do ittttttt. She is the same age as Ginger, who started like a week ago. The Midnight Majesty Marans are also the same age (they were all shipping buddies)... and the MMMs have also been nest hopping, but not nearly as much as Catelyn.
I think not only will they lay longer, but also bigger eggs. I remember reading somewhere that delayed onset of lay resulted in much bigger eggs overall. Maybe they will start in the early spring and give you giant delicious eggs!!!
Speedy(RIR x SLW) was my 3rd to start laying and I'm lucky if she hits 44g
I think hers will just stay small. When she came out of molt, her first egg was 29g LOL... but she does lay 6 eggs a week regularly so that's fine. I tell you who really has surprised me is Dottie(Barred Rock)... she has laid an egg everyday for the last 19 days... MAYBE more, but that's when I started using Flockstar so, yeah. She spends 20 minutes in the box and then goes on with her day - EVERYDAY. It kinda freaks me out cause I feel like they need days off you know??I can hardly wait to see them. They should be a light powdery blue kind of color. She also has a chance of laying brown though... so we will see... maybe tomorrow
Oh my... I just looked over the past 3 weeks... and I am averaging 62 eggs a week
