Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[mortie]

After reading some articles and some youtube videos, I figured out I was feeling around in the wrong place, I was feeling the keel bone, which is also too to be pointing down but I found the pelvic bones and they're only about a finger apart on the two birds that I checked. Oh well.

I'm not going to bother with that anymore, I'll just watch for the squat.

 

[cheeka]

I found the best method to determine if someone was laying was finding an egg.

 

[mortie]

I suspect that is right. I just have nothing better to do than obsess about it. It's like when they were eggs and I was totally obsessed with them....CHICKENS....oy.

 

[subhanalah]

Mortie, have you tried fermented feed yet?
http://tikktok.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/fermented-feed-faq/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/901514/fermented-feed-should-you-be-doing-it

 

[mortie]

No, I read the article. I am not opposed to it but I haven't gotten around to it and honestly at this stage in the game i don't think it's going to make a huge difference. I will probably try it but I don't think it's going to hurry them along...it's not like they're really old. They're not even 15 wks yet.

 

[cheeka]

Holy Moly Holm! that's a whole lotta chicks!!! awesome photos and I'm so jealous... I wanted to quote so I could be specific about some pics but I can't and I also wanted to put the smiley with the hearts... but I can't do that either. anyway, love them!

 

[mortie]

The girls are all laying on the deck next to the grill. Dh says "They know their future" lol.

 

[subhanalah]

No, I read the article.  I am not opposed to it but I haven't gotten around to it and honestly at this stage in the game i don't think it's going to make a huge difference.  I will probably try it but I don't think it's going to hurry them along...it's not like they're really old.  They're not even 15 wks yet.

oh, hahaha! I thought they were 18 +!
It does make a huge difference. Ask the people who get birds from me and come back a few weeks later and can't believe their birds came from the same place as the ones I still have!

 

[mortie]

I am sure it makes a difference and I do want to try it I just think they will lay when they lay (and I will be ultra hyper-vigilant about it lol. I wish I had managed to hold off another couple weeksbecause I can tell they're not close. Brats. Driving me crazy since they were eggs. A refresher for those who are new- I thought I killed them a time or two and drove the folks here nuts with my hand wringing and whatnot. For all of your sakes I hope one goes at 16 weeks so I can quiet down.

 

[cheeka]

mortie, we're no different. revisit the beginning of the thread! the whole thing is fun and exciting and full of hand wringing, second guessing and whatnot. enjoy the ride...

I had to go out at around 8:30 because the rain was so bad. I had to push water off the "roof" of the Fosters pen. I really need to do something about that cruddy roof... and Esther was back up and on the roost. looks like it's a broody breaker for her just to be in that pen. anyway, I am not going to have her disrupting the other 2, so I put her on the roost in the Dome, and took the eggs back. she'll brood someday. and she laid an egg, the 4 standard plus her itty bitty egg... finished the day with a total of 20 today. I have an order for four dozen for Friday, after I delivered 1 dozen today - I've still got just enough, hoping to have at least one more day to collect more before anyone else orders... I haven't had to tell anyone I don't have enough since the end of short days! I do regret giving up those 4 Fosters - I notice the difference in #'s... they were so consistent.