Norwegian Jaerhon

[1muttsfan]

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Got one for ya Roosterfry.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/19857_jaerhon_eggs_1.jpg

 

[chicken potpie 2020]

thank you for the welcoming

 

[Amyable]

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Got one for ya Roosterfry.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/19857_jaerhon_eggs_1.jpg

Yep! That's a big good looking egg! Have u noticed egg shell's and interier quality being any better than other egg laying breeds?

I noticed very good uniformity when all 3 girls were laying, only occasional malformed shells. Also many of their eggs have a telltale point on the small end; kinda hard to describe, like a tiny wrinkle at the tip. And always the biggest white eggs out of the whole flock.

I also got a video of my roo crowing using DH's smartphone; too bad the phone is too dumb to let me download it...

 

[Roosterfry]

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Yep! That's a big good looking egg! Have u noticed egg shell's and interier quality being any better than other egg laying breeds?

I noticed very good uniformity when all 3 girls were laying, only occasional malformed shells. Also many of their eggs have a telltale point on the small end; kinda hard to describe, like a tiny wrinkle at the tip. And always the biggest white eggs out of the whole flock.

I also got a video of my roo crowing using DH's smartphone; too bad the phone is too dumb to let me download it...

I can wait to get eggs! I'm about ready to squeeze one to see if I can get an egg out!

I know what you mean about a "stupid" smart phone I have one, it's a black berry. I do everything on it. I have a video I took of a rooster comforting a hen while she's laying an egg??? Is this rare? I've seen him do it on at least three occasions, usually it's when a hen is stressed like when she's laying her first egg or a double yolker.

 

[1muttsfan]

That is so sweet. My current (only) rooster does not seem to know he is a boy, other than a little crowing he acts just like a hen

 

[Roosterfry]

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My jaers are acting that way too! I'm turning the red light on in the coop next week, maybe that'll help them wake up!

Second thought, I'm wondering if they like there privacy maybe?? Because when I go down there to the coop I can see they all stop what their doing, make some chicken noises then come up to look at me through the fence kinda odd...

 

[1muttsfan]

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My jaers are acting that way too! I'm turning the red light on in the coop next week, maybe that'll help them wake up!

Second thought, I'm wondering if they like there privacy maybe?? Because when I go down there to the coop I can see they all stop what their doing, make some chicken noises then come up to look at me through the fence kinda odd...

They are probably thinking "It's that food guy again - Where Is It!"

Or they think you are the rooster...

 

[discoveregg]

My roosters are all trying to mount the hens, but the hens will have nothing to do with them

...yet. Need to set up my breeding pens quickly. No eggs yet...

 

[Roosterfry]

Haha does that happen? Do chickens mistake their keepers as a rooster?

Discoveregg- I'm turning on the light in their coop this saturday, I have my fingers crossed!

 

[1muttsfan]

Before I had a rooster the girls would all run up to me and squat for a little attention, that doesn't happen now that they have a boyfriend.