Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Scrambles55]

Sunset in the San Juan Islands.

there were many Bald Eagles in the area.

 

[Scrambles55]

Pirate ships doing battle. It was fun to watch.

We watched this baby seal for over an hour, try to get on this boat. It even tried to nurse on the bilge holes. They finally netted it with a crab net to give it a rest. We have no clue what happened after that.

 

[cheeka]

fabulous photos Scrambles! sounds like a wonderful trip! as for raspberry beak, yep. I have been betting cockerel since hatch day, but feeling even stronger in the last few days. I'm really hoping the standard brown chick is a pullet, it has the greenest legs I've ever seen on a one of my chicks!

and I found 2 more eggs on last check of everyone... so 16...

 

[mortie]

Nice pics, scrambles!

We free ranged
Ate watermelon
Had lots of fun
The red girls are lazy
Today we laid one!

 

[mortie]

Penny made it 5 days in a row this morning. I got up early to see if I could watch her lay an egg and I checked the box at 6:15 and there was nothing. A few minutes later I saw her get in the box. I went outside and sat quietly hoping to see her lay it through the coop window but I got distracted by something else.

I think I know who dug the hole in the coop bedding, and it's not who I thought. The whole time, the Bobsey twins just stood there and stared at me as if they were not thinking AT ALL about laying an egg, but wondering where their pie was. Midge spent quite a lot of time investigating the nest that Penny wasn't in, and digging holes in the coop bedding...I guess trying to see if DIY would be a better option.

At 7:10 Penny BURST into song which scared the heck out of poor Midge, who beat it out of the coop double time. I'll keep my eye on her...

 

[valjean]

I have had a fan running on mine. They are in an insulated shed row Florida style barn with shade from trees and they all still have their beaks open panting away. The humidity is like 60% you could drink the air or incubate without a hen I think. Could probably start a contest to see who could predict the closest to when they thought they would get their first egg from the hens. I will call mine at 22 weeks which would be the week of August 25th...

Fortunately my coop sits where it feels 6-8 degrees cooler than in my backyard. But the really bad heat hasn't started yet - maybe we will get lucky this year and have a decent summer.

I checked those booty bones on Lucy, the most mature girl. I can get not quite 2 fingers between. So...I'm predicting August 26th, since that's the day we leave for a trip at dawn-thirty. My mom will get the thrill of finding the first egg. 23 weeks.

 

[mortie]

If it makes you feel any better, penny always had the narrowest pelvis. Maggie's and Wilson both had her beat in the pelvis category and you can see what that has gotten them. They stand around looking like tweetle dee and tweetle dumb while penny earns her keep (and extra treats!).

 

[savannahm0m]

I did a major cleaning of my coop yesterday. Had some things I ended up having to rework, so the girls were completely off schedule. I left about lunchtime (no eggs) and got home about 4:30...still no eggs. I figured that I had been skunked for the day (which is unusual when you have 8 or 9 birds laying). Sometime between 4:30 and 7, three of my girls came through and gave me eggs...including another white egg. The white ones are so tiny! I fried the white one for my son, and it was laughable it was so small. That's okay...today will be a banner day.

 

[valjean]

If it makes you feel any better, penny always had the narrowest pelvis. Maggie's and Wilson both had her beat in the pelvis category and you can see what that has gotten them. They stand around looking like tweetle dee and tweetle dumb while penny earns her keep (and extra treats!).

Hmmm, interesting. I checked two of the others and their bones are really close together, like one finger width. The other one (EE) goes nuts when I pick her up and she's a little thing compared to the others, so I'm sure she ain't got nothin' going on.

Wilson! what a funny name!

 

[BullChick]

I don't know if it is the cooler weather or taking the turkeys out of the building, but I am getting 1-2 more eggs than I have in couple months.