New eggs

[jolly wattles]

What's the problem here?? I hate waiting for them to lay! Now I gotta go have a talking to to our four new pullets!

 

[Farmer Dano]

Yeah, sometimes the feed stores just throw the little ones that didn't sell into the next batch, which may be why you're hen doesn't really look like a cinnamon queen... But she does look like quite a beautiful heritage New Hampshire, which is a wonderful breed. All my Cinnamon Queens were light colored underneath and faded back to a white tail. They were darkest at the head.

 

[Farmer Dano]

I Googled it and the first picture that came up was the New Hampshire red that looks just like mine. They are very beautiful bird. I love how the feathers lay on the back of the neck going down the back. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

 

[BreanneRN]

Hey, you did alright! Most of the people on here are complaining that not only is their feed store bird NOT laying but it has turned out to be a rooster! Yours are beautiful and laying before they're due to! How sweet is that!?

 

[Farmer Dano]

My apologies to everyone. My daughter informed that we got these chickens before I thought we got them. So they are actually 19 weeks old. Getting old isn't the best thing in life. LOL. Maybe it's time for them to put me out to pasture. But I have been getting an egg a day from my 2 New Hampshire Reds and my buff orpingtons have not started laying yet. I have 5 Buff orpington's and they're all good size but I have one that has the comb hardley coming in and it's still very pink the other ones are more red and there are a lot Fuller.

 

[Farmer Dano]

 

[Farmer Dano]

These chickens were bought at the same time and they're both the same size. Any idea why one's comb is bigger than the other?

 

[BreanneRN]

I still think that your New Hampshires (that were supposed to be Cinnamon Queens) are just a little older than you're Buff Orps because they were left over chicks from a previous shipment that wound up in the Cinnamon Queen Bin... So, maybe they are a week to 10 days older. But also, different breeds (and even different breeder or hatchery lines) develop at slightly different rates and reach egg laying maturity at different times. Even individual birds from same bloodlines will reach maturity at different rates. Just like people do! Also, even within the same breed, there is individual variation between birds. Just as people don't all look the same. Also, comb size is related to maturity, and the ones with bigger, redder comb are just coming to point of lay now. That doesn't mean that the other one will ever develop the same size comb as that one though. Just like some people have different size noses, different size combs are possible. Don't worry, your buff orps will undoubtedly start laying soon, but in their own time.