patients wearing thin GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rancher hicks]

I could have sold four doz eggs yesterday but only had enough eggs for two. DW has been cooking up a storm for DD's baby shower. I might have had more if these girls would get a move on. Got a new chick today hope it's a girl. I expect more to hatch soon and hope they're all hens.

Here's two that I hope lay before the snow flies.

one's a del the other a lavender amer/ee cross.

 

[oldchickenlady]

I am waiting for eggs also, but I know it is too soon for mine. They were born April 19 and I got them the 22nd. I am working on their coop and getting it ready for them now. I haven't made my nest boxes yet but will as soon as I get through painting, putting down linoleum and fixing the roosts. Right now they stay in a pvc hoop/1x2 welded wire run at night. They were 3 months old on the 19th so I still have a while to go. The hens are making very grown up bawk bawk sounds now (seems like they 'peeped' for the longest time!) but my RIR roo hasn't started crowing yet, nor has he shown any interest in the girls 'that way'

but he is getting tall, putting out his 'rooster feathers' and getting heavy. So hopefully before winter I will have some eggs!

 

[Lotsapaints]

Mine were hatched 2/28 the Cuckoo's are laying not steady but everyday I get some the Delawares just started today and the Partridge Rocks are still free loaders....21 weeks and counting

 

[jjthink]

patients wearing thin!!!! GRRRRRR!!!

I saw the title of your thread (but not the category it was written under as this does not show up on the BYC home page) and thought you were in the medical field and had patients who were losing weight! (and I thought - oh no, that's not good unless a weight loss clinic!).
Now I see that it's just your patience that is wearing thin! Hang in there!
JJ​

 

[undergroundchickens]

Keep your chin up. I was getting pretty discouraged as well but I just got my first egg today. The girls are 20 weeks old today. It will happen.

Now I am looking forward to each of the girls first eggs.

 

[mgw]

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Yes it is!! But I must admit it is exciting every time I go and check!!!

 

[mgw]

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Congrats!!! Lucky you, my day is coming.

 

[Kittymomma]

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Yes it is!! But I must admit it is exciting every time I go and check!!!

It's so much fun when that first egg shows up. I did a double take, I'd been checking those darn boxes for what seemed like forever and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Funny thing is I do the same thing every year, I have a group I hatched out just before Easter and a few are starting to get pretty pink in the comb. I know they need to get redder before they start laying and that it will probably be 2-4 more weeks, but I can't seem to stop compulsively checking the nest box I have set up in the teen-ager pen.

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

It won't be long now. My Leghorns started at 17 wks. the same week as my 24 wk Orps. The BLSs were 18 wks. Hang in there.

 

[NWChicks]

I'm on the other side of the mountains from you and where I live has been in the upper 80's, low 90's (though we did have a week of 100 degree weather too.) My oldest birds (2 BO's, 2 NH Reds, 1 BR) were hatched Feb 12 and only one of them has begun to lay and that at age 23 weeks.

I have three EE's that are two weeks younger and two of those just started laying as well so if yours were hatched in March you're getting close. Are you seeing any of them squat for you yet? Nice red combs and wattles? Singing the egg song? I put golf balls in my nest boxes to show them where to make a deposit and I noticed a few days before doing the deed a couple of them were in there pushing the balls around. Of course, I also had one that just decided to lay today with no indication it was coming! She just hopped on into the box with a buff that was in there, squeezed her over and pooped out an egg! Works for me!