NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

in 24 hours Pearl has laid 4 eggs... should I worry? she is the only one old enough to lay. They are the same color, just the light angle. Her eggs are almost pink some days.

also,



One week, hopefully the little one survives the hatch.


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No one is saying it, so I will. Chickens don't lay 4 eggs in 24 hours. I suspect your other chickens are older than you know and are laying their eggs in Pearl's nest. You cannot tell my D'uccle eggs from each other. They all look alike, but they are laid by different hens. I suspect that is what is happening in your coop.

My earlier research said that it takes 25 hours from the time the egg leaves the top of the egg tract for it to exit the hen's body. (Somewhere I saw 23 hours, too.) Given that, it is possible for a hen to lay 2 in 24 hours but not 4. Hens will lay where the eggs are, which is why people mark the eggs they want to leave under the broody for hatching and remove extra eggs laid in the nest daily.

 

[Henicillin]

Pharm you are the legal drug dealer and I am the legal drug pusher (Nurse) LOL! Melissa

Professional licensed drug dealer here (pharmacist).

Featherz is also a nurse, and I think someone else is as well.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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Do you eat your eggs after you added Seven to your coop ? I dont put any of those things near anything I eat ..
I told the hubby no chemcials anywhere ..dont spray anything & only natural fertilizers ( like manure ) in our garden .
I dont want the chickens getting eating breathing that stuff or me either .
You can kill ants with ammonia / Windex or Alcohol .I clean my coop with a light spray of rubbing alcohol & water

 

[Gramma Chick]

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I think it suffered already ( it suffocated ...) it couldnt breathe .
It was easier for you ...But not easier for the chick . I believe for more than 3 seconds it was in a lot of pain .
Suffocating is a hard way to die .

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Professional licensed drug dealer here (pharmacist).

Featherz is also a nurse, and I think someone else is as well.

My husband tells everyone I became a nurse because I can legally stab people and he gets so many people that give him looks and then he explains that I stab them with needles for shots. LOL!

 

[Breella]

No one is saying it, so I will. Chickens don't lay 4 eggs in 24 hours. I suspect your other chickens are older than you know and are laying their eggs in Pearl's nest. You cannot tell my D'uccle eggs from each other. They all look alike, but they are laid by different hens. I suspect that is what is happening in your coop.

My earlier research said that it takes 25 hours from the time the egg leaves the top of the egg tract for it to exit the hen's body. (Somewhere I saw 23 hours, too.) Given that, it is possible for a hen to lay 2 in 24 hours but not 4. Hens will lay where the eggs are, which is why people mark the eggs they want to leave under the broody for hatching and remove extra eggs laid in the nest daily.

I've had the others since they were just a few days old. I got Pearl from Lynzi to replace one of my babies who died. No chance of them being any older than 10-11 weeks old. The other thing is that maybe they were from last week when I thought she had gone broody, maybe she stashed them and then the others pecking around moved the bedding around them.

*edit note* it just seems odd because the day before I found these eggs I cleaned the coop and had not seen them.

 

[rancher hicks]

My husband tells everyone I became a nurse because I can legally stab people and he gets so many people that give him looks and then he explains that I stab them with needles for shots. LOL!

I had someone tell me they want to be a PT so they can hurt people.

Do you eat your eggs after you added Seven to your coop ? I dont put any of those things near anything I eat ..
I told the hubby no chemcials anywhere ..dont spray anything & only natural fertilizers ( like manure ) in our garden .
I dont want the chickens getting eating breathing that stuff or me either .
You can kill ants with ammonia / Windex or Alcohol .I clean my coop with a light spray of rubbing alcohol & water

I don't use Sevin in or near my chickens. I do use DE for dusting the floor and in the nest box corners at cleaning time. I think it helps to keep thing dry. Dark and moist areas are breeding grounds for mites. That's why I hate wet weather.

I think it suffered already ( it suffocated ...) it couldnt breathe .
It was easier for you ...But not easier for the chick . I believe for more than 3 seconds it was in a lot of pain .
Suffocating is a hard way to die .

I've never used this method. If a chick is newborn or only a few days old...........well I prefer not to say, most generally I believe a wrung neck is faster. IMO. I do put a bag over their head first though.

 

[rancher hicks]

No one is saying it, so I will. Chickens don't lay 4 eggs in 24 hours. I suspect your other chickens are older than you know and are laying their eggs in Pearl's nest. You cannot tell my D'uccle eggs from each other. They all look alike, but they are laid by different hens. I suspect that is what is happening in your coop.

My earlier research said that it takes 25 hours from the time the egg leaves the top of the egg tract for it to exit the hen's body. (Somewhere I saw 23 hours, too.) Given that, it is possible for a hen to lay 2 in 24 hours but not 4. Hens will lay where the eggs are, which is why people mark the eggs they want to leave under the broody for hatching and remove extra eggs laid in the nest daily.

I didn't want to be the one.

I read a lot of the Chicken stuff and magazines and like to pass the info along but I think I run the risk of being a Know it All. Really I'm just regurgitating what I've read. PP mag is $7.99 not something every one can afford. IMO.

DW and I like to go to Barnes and Nobles and we sit there drink coffee and read magazines. That's where I read about mint keeping rats away. Not sure it works but anything is worth a try.

 

[featherz]

Professional licensed drug dealer here (pharmacist).

Featherz is also a nurse, and I think someone else is as well.

Yeppers! RN care manager here! I do occasionally stab people with needles as well.

 

[vodkalady]

i am hailing from grahamsville ny and we have 14- 4 wk old baby girls