NY chicken lover!!!!

[featherz]

My girls are NOT happy with me.

I had to keep them in chicken jail (no run, just in the coop) yesterday since I had to work and we had some predator action here the other day, apparently.. I am guessing either fox or hawk, most likely fox.. I'm home today so they will get some run time, but maybe only an hour or two of free ranging when I am out there. Ah well.

Two of the coops are somewhat ok with being kept inside, but my 'mixed age' coop tends to get cranky.

Good news is I have two sets of eggs winging their way over here - haven't had excellent luck with shipped eggs, but if I get 50% I'll be happy.

Some actual tufted/rumpless araucana eggs plus some others - wish me luck!

Rain today.. can ya believe it? I've only been here a couple of winters, but this is unusually warm for December, right?

 

[vmdanielsen]

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What is90.0 grams in onces? My mind does not work in metric.

 

[featherz]

I've had a few bigger eggs than this one but got a pic of this one.. from a leghorn, naturally. Not sure how those tiny birds do it. oh and there's about 28g in an ounce.

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Good luck with the eggs!! Hope you get some nice araucanas!! EEWWW! I want to hatch!! I have to wait till late winter! Indeed, it is warm for December!!

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Wow!! great egg!
So 90 g is just under 3 oz? I have a leghorn too! She is amazing. Still popping them out at about 4 a week when everyone else quit about a month ago.

Anybody ever do artificial insemination? I would love to breed her with a blue egger to see what kind of eggs I would get from the match. I really don't want another rooster though. The 2 I currently have are enough!

 

[ODEY587]

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awesome egg my leghorns some times lay big ones like that!

 

[featherz]

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Wow!! great egg!
So 90 g is just under 3 oz? I have a leghorn too! She is amazing. Still popping them out at about 4 a week when everyone else quit about a month ago.

Anybody ever do artificial insemination? I would love to breed her with a blue egger to see what kind of eggs I would get from the match. I really don't want another rooster though. The 2 I currently have are enough!

My leghorns are still laying almost daily - 2-3 eggs/day from three leghorns. They are 18 months old and haven't molted yet like everyone else. Hopefully they wait until my younger pullets are all laying regular eggs.

 

[Aria]

We have 16 Silkie Hens. We are getting 5 to 7 eggs daily. We have 4 hens that were born in April. Don't know the age of others. Aria

 

[greymane]

Alright. Here we go. Going to give incubating a try. We just put in five Silkie eggs and five Reds. We will see how it goes. We are borrowing the neighbors incubator, but will get our own in the spring if this works out.

 

[Henicillin]

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Good luck! Also, good luck to Featherz' eggs-in-transit!

That Leghorn egg is crazy! They're such streamlined little things - it makes me wonder where they keep all those monster eggs. My sole Leghorn is the most reliable producer out there. She has missed two days, maybe three since she started laying about a month or so ago, and she's already into medium to large territory. I'm not using supplemental lighting to boost production, either - it's all her. Meyer Leghorns are a Hy-Line production strain, and it shows. I'm half-tempted to get a couple more in the spring, as I find her to be a charming little thing and fun to watch. I'll see how she does this winter under my coop conditions first, though.

It's 59 degrees, and I'm LOVING it. I'd be good if it stayed like this all winter, thanks, although I would take a pass on the rain that has converted the run and the yard into Mud City.