Plymouth Rock thread!

[Yard full o' rocks]

I am still waiting on my SPPR to lay, so I can start hatching. Its about 9 1/2 months now.

TNBEARCHICK

If your SPRs are 9 1/2 months and not laying yet, you might need to add supplemental light or you may not get eggs until Spring when the days get longer

 

[cybercat]

I am still waiting on my SPPR to lay, so I can start hatching. Its about 9 1/2 months now.

Are you free ranging TnBear? I agree they should be laying by now. Are you feeding a 20% protein feed? If so are you feeding extra things like scratch or goodies. If you are cut all that out and just feed the 20% layer only and lock them in the coop for a few days. If the have bright red combs they should be laying. I am thinking they are hiding the eggs on you.

 

[Wynette]

Honestly, it's not a good idea to hatch pullet eggs anyway...best to wait at least a couple months of laying before hatching pullet eggs.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Honestly, it's not a good idea to hatch pullet eggs anyway...best to wait at least a couple months of laying before hatching pullet eggs.

Great point!!

Hatching from newly laying pullets often ends up with inferior chicks and/or hatchability issues. That's another reason I like to hatch early in the winter, females mature and start laying mid-late summer and ready to be hatched from come Dec/Jan

 

[Silver Rock]

Well overnight I got one more chick to hatch. So in this hatch I got 6 chicks.

 

[Wynette]

Aoxa, your SPR are looking lovely!

Thanks so much for posting pics of them!

 

[jdoane]

Well overnight I got one more chick to hatch. So in this hatch I got 6 chicks.

 

[aoxa]

Aoxa, your SPR are looking lovely!

Thanks so much for posting pics of them!

Do they look like yours from her as well? Still haven't seen any pictures

 

[Wynette]

Do they look like yours from her as well? Still haven't seen any pictures

Very much so. I ended up keeping only two from my first hatch from PEI, a pair. However, the pullet is EXTREMELY flighty. So I may end up not using her. I can't get pictures of her at all, she's afraid of everyone and everything, poor little gal.

The younger set I haven't gone through yet, and have decided I'll wait until spring to do so. They are just now at about 19 weeks; I grow them slowly, so they're not huge...but I'm hoping that by spring, they'll really be in full bloom! I'll be moving them to a new, larger pen (hopefully) this weekend, and will try to get some pics at that time.

 

[aoxa]

Very much so. I ended up keeping only two from my first hatch from PEI, a pair. However, the pullet is EXTREMELY flighty. So I may end up not using her. I can't get pictures of her at all, she's afraid of everyone and everything, poor little gal.

The younger set I haven't gone through yet, and have decided I'll wait until spring to do so. They are just now at about 19 weeks; I grow them slowly, so they're not huge...but I'm hoping that by spring, they'll really be in full bloom! I'll be moving them to a new, larger pen (hopefully) this weekend, and will try to get some pics at that time.

Looking forward to seeing pictures

Well they must calm down when laying because her birds were extremely calm and docile. I don't really try to handle mine at all, so I can't say they are friendly or not. They don't seek me out though unless I have food.