Nebraskans Speak Up!!! NEBRASKA ROCKS!!

[jimbob86]

HappyDad, I'm in Murray ..... I don't have have a Google login ...... not getting one either .....

 

[Husker Hens]

I know that relaxed feeling well! Nothing quite like it, especially this time of year! As far as the no egg conundrum, I have no idea. From the little I know though, no eggs for 5 days seems wrong. I know eggs can get caught in their vent at times, but I'd search for that on here because I know almost nothing about that. I think they call it "egg locked" or something. Maybe at first they lay more sporadic and all mine just started laying on consecutive days so I didn't notice?

 

[jimbob86]

"Egg bound" is the term you are thinking of..... but none of them seem in any distress..... when I open the door in the evenings, they fly down cackling like a flushed rooster pheasant...... running across the yard and challenging the next cackler as she makes a landing.....

 

[WthrLady]

Nah. It'sa molting, cooler days, shorter days thing. I have one thats on day 8 of no eggs. One on day 5.

They're lookin scraggly too.

 

[jimbob86]

Mine all look fine .....not shedding feathers any more so than usual. Do they molt their first fall? I wouldn't think so- those feathers aren't even 5 months old!

 

[WthrLady]

Not usually. But the cooler temps and lower light can slow then down.

 

[jimbob86]

Wife wants to put a light in the coop to get them going......thoughts?

 

[Husker Hens]

I got a huge egg today! They've been getting larger over the past month, but this one is way bigger than any other!

 

[WthrLady]

My coop and run have 25 w bulbs in them. They kick on at 5am, off at 8am. On at 5pm off at 730pm.

My lower egg rate is molting. Still getting 7ish of 14 a day.

 

[AGuyWithSomeHen]

Starting a flock in Omaha. One Easter Egger, 2 Barred Rocks, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes. They're a month old now, and a lot of fun so far.