Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Wishing4Wings]

Oh my goodness! How sweet about her helping and putting her boots on! I am soooooo glad she is with you!

Can't imagine what she'd be imitating and learning if she were elsewhere.

 

[chickenraiser24]

Chickens are in a perpetual state of searching, scratching, looking, tasting, catching, anticipating, fighting over, expecting, hoping, waiting for FOOD.  Pretty much anything they can get down their gullets is fair game, if they're hungry enough.  They are not, however, genetically programmed to eat an egg.  Were that the case, they would eat themselves right out of existence!  The egg eating chickens we hear about are almost always a result of nutritional deficiency (more protein, please!) or weak shells (can't let a broken egg go to waste!).  A true egg eater is quite rare, but once they see eggs as a source of food, it's difficult to get them to stop.  Your EE is naturally curious (Got something for me to eat, ma?), maybe had never really seen an egg, and was just checking it out.  You know, just in case...   



A good broody hen will eject certain eggs from the nest.  I have seen one give the eggs a little tap with her beak while turning her eggs. I think they can detect bad eggs that are porous, thin shelled, or have hairline cracks or weak spots.  On a nice, thick shelled egg, that little tap could not cause any damage at all.  Maybe your EE was doing a quality control check!

My EE that did this has not layed an egg yet. I had put it down to put on gloves, so that may have been the first time she has ever seen an egg(I do not think she goes into the coop when my rir is in the nesting box).

 

[BullChick]

Yeah, it doesn't sound like there's an issue with your EE. Alllll is well!

 

[BullChick]

I had a heck of a time getting to sleep last night! I will be setting these duck eggs in two days, and I suddenly got really excited!
I have six in the bedroom (where it is coldest, go figure) and two fresher ones in the fridge. I also have maybe six or eight that I was given with the ducks. I really don't want to eat them (personal choice) so I am going to give them a try in the incubator.
Today I will be starting up the incubator to be sure all is in working order.
As for the duckling upstairs, she woke at quarter of eight (woo hoo! She slept all night!) and is still up there. Singing is over, may have gone back to sleep. I'm hoping she didn't figure out how to strip herself naked. She has the ability.

I didn't wake until after 7. That is rare for me.

 

[chickenraiser24]

I was going to get up at 5, but I fell back asleep. Next thing I know, it it 6. The latest I have ever woken up is 7:30.

 

[chickenraiser24]

It snowed again. My chickens will not leave the coop. I do not want them sitting around all day. When it is cold, they are fine. But the moment it snows, they do not leave the coop!

 

[BullChick]

Not only did I already get my four chicken eggs (I've given up on the fifth) but I got a duck egg too! Awesome after only one egg yesterday!
It also means another duck egg to incubate... And I might be kinda sorta maybe just a little bit be incubating a few chicken eggs too. Maybe kinda sorta yeah.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Not only did I already get my four chicken eggs (I've given up on the fifth) but I got a duck egg too! Awesome after only one egg yesterday!
It also means another duck egg to incubate... And I might be kinda sorta maybe just a little bit be incubating a few chicken eggs too. Maybe kinda sorta yeah.

"My name is MotorcycleChick and I am a hatchoholic."

 

[BullChick]

True nervous very very dreadfully nervous I had been and am. But why will you say that I am mad?! This disease has sharpened my senses! Not destroyed, not dulled them! Above all is my sense of hatching acute. I hatch all birds in the heavens and on the earth. I hatch many things that dwell on earth.

 

[BullChick]

Wrangler and Duckling (yay! Jaz has a name!) teaming up to collect eggs next year.