Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

Sort of random question, I guess, but it’s driving me crazy: why do some chickens - mine, anyway - lay at the same time every day?

It’s supposed to take 26 hours (27?) for an egg to form. Ours lay at the same time each morning.

EE: hasn’t missed a day in 4 weeks. Marches into the coop at the same time each morning and back out 15-20 minutes later.

BO: lays 4-5x/week. Takes longer to lay, but same time, including when she lays several days in a row.

BR: 3, moving toward 4. Same time, although it’s rare for her to lay two days in a row.

Can the next egg start forming while the current one is at the final spray paint booth stage or something? (The EE doesn’t have a paint booth - eggs are the same pale blue-green inside and out.)

I’m not complaining, mind you, but my logic-pattern-loving brain is going bananas.

There is quite a large tolerance in the time it takes a hen to lay an egg. Better to look at the 24 hour standard as an average rather than a median value.
It can be even more misleading when the manufacturing runs faster than the delivery. You can see this sometimes when one or two eggs are delivered within a couple of hours sometimes and the have flats on them. This usually means the eggs have crashed into each other just before shelling as I understand it.

Humans with their nine month pregnancies are much the same. Even with accurate conception data, not many get delivered exactly nine months later.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

There is quite a large tolerance in the time it takes a hen to lay an egg. Better to look at the 24 hour standard as an average rather than a median value.
It can be even more misleading when the manufacturing runs faster than the delivery. You can see this sometimes when one or two eggs are delivered within a couple of hours sometimes and the have flats on them. This usually means the eggs have crashed into each other just before shelling as I understand it.

Humans with their nine month pregnancies are much the same. Even with accurate conception data, not many get delivered exactly nine months later.

My personal record for pregnancy: due 11/15 (I figured 11/20), scheduled for dedication at church at the 11/27 Thanksgiving service, born 12/3; 10 lbs 3 oz. Homebirth.

She’s now 6’ tall. Dang, those shoulders…

 

[Shadrach]

Three hours today. 22C down to 15C late evening.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Three hours today. 22C down to 15C late evening.
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How are they dealing with the loss of their sister?

 

[Shadrach]

How are they dealing with the loss of their sister?

There has been so much going from Henry to the weather I couldn't even begin to guess what caused what currently. Everyone is stressed.

 

[Sally PB]

Aw, ladies, I'm so sorry.

 

[Shadrach]

Definitely worth reading and reviewing.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...lutions-and-the-stuff-nobody-tells-you.80133/

 

[thistlewick]

human pregnancy is 40 weeks gestation, so actually 10 lunar months, or 10 hormone cycles of a woman's body.

Why people say 9 is likely because If we divide 280 days by the average month length of ~30.4 days, we get 9.2 months

I was basically right on time for my 3

 

[fluffycrow]

Congratulations to @Mother of Chaos and @thistlewick for their new recognition medals!

Congratulations!

I sure hope to see both of you with spirit badges soon

 

[fluffycrow]

Four hours today.
Tull died sometime this morning. I found her dead next to Fret in the coop extension. She had a heart attack. No mistaking the signs, neck far out and hackles slightly raised. Poor Tull. Poor all of them.
Fret is no better but she had managed to leave the coop and perch on the board that separates the coop and the coop extension, something I had sever doubts about when I left her last night. I put Fret on the roost bar in the coop tonight and she wobbled a bit but settled.
If everybody was dying with even vaguely similar symptoms I could believe something contagious was being picked up and was spreading through the group, but they're not.
Grave digging tomorrow again. I should at least have some help for that as my friend who lives close by has offered to help. my eldest's husband who would and has helped in the past has a broken wrist and the treasurer who would also help has hurt his back.
Sylph is laying again a few days after the shell less egg she laid and the eggs are normal.

It's complete nonsense but I can't help thinking if Henry was alive none of this would be happening.
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I’m so sorry . How unexpected and sad. You and the chickens haven’t been able to catch a break in some time now. Poor Tull. It’s awful to see young birds pass away