Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Chookas]

Chookas- if you want to see what she is talking about, go back to June or so of last year. Grab a snack first, it will be fun. If you REALLY want to read some crazy, go back to this time last year. I thought I killed my eggs I was hatching at least a dozen times.

Haha thanks for your comment - I completely understand! Coming from a science background I know it's completely silly to expect that anything will quicken the ovulation/egg laying process, but I feel like I've been waiting for so long and now that I've finally got one, I want more!

 

[mortie]

Oh we have a specific ordinance that allows them.

 

[savannahm0m]

All I know is when the s*@! hits the fan, our neighbors (and I say this for chicken owners everywhere) will appreciate how self sufficient we have become!

 

[mortie]

Haha thanks for your comment - I completely understand! Coming from a science background I know it's completely silly to expect that anything will quicken the ovulation/egg laying process, but I feel like I've been waiting for so long and now that I've finally got one, I want more! 

I know exactly how you feel. Once my first one started laying it was like crushing disappointment if she took a day off. And don't even get me started about the day I broke the egg. Oh man I just about spontaneously combusted.

 

[Debby27]

Or you could do what I did when they were taking time off from laying this winter and put an egg in your coat pocket, the only egg you get for a couple days & forget about it for a week, then put that coat on and shove your hand into your pocket to find your gloves and crush said egg in your pocket and come out with a stinky, slimy hand!!! I was like "REALLY!!!"......brain fart!!!!

 

[Scrambles55]

DH and I could live off the land quite well.

 

[mortie]

Ah yes, the old pocket scramble. That egg shouldn't have been stinky after only a week in your pocket, that's strange. Slimy for sure though!

I have not had the pleasure of the pocket scramble but come awfully close. I put some eggs into the front pocket of a hoodie and then leaned up on something. Felt the eggs and was able to avoid breaking them at the last second. The other time was when it was like below zero and this one egg kinda popped as I put it in my pocket. The slight temp change must have sent it over the edge. It was frozen and just on the cusp of cracking and it went when I stuck it in my pocket.

 

[XxMingirlxX]

I have done the pocket scramble for to often.

 

[Scrambles55]

I think I have done it once.

 

[savannahm0m]

This sums it up nicely: