Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[ronott1]

Here too and too soon. Not a fan of the heat.

It is 91F today with cloud cover. Not pleasant for April!

 

[ronott1]

I have to stop forgetting that Duckling forgets about things... like broody hens sitting on the “missing” eggs.

Are you going to have a broody hatch?

 

[BullChick]

Six eggs! That is a perfect day considering I kinda sorta may not have as successfully broken the broody as I thought I had.

 

[ronott1]

Six eggs! That is a perfect day considering I kinda sorta may not have as successfully broken the broody as I thought I had.

It takes a while for a broody to start back up laying too!

 

[BullChick]

Crappy egg week, but more importantly, two broodies. I am letting them go because the one ain’t budging. The first still is likely to come out when I give scratch. She waits a minute if she does, and goes right back. I guess it’s just her mothering style. The first time around anyway. I don’t know how many eggs they have. I’m making today the cutoff. I doubt they have more than 6, and I don’t think anyone has laid in their box. Regardless, you know I need to check.

 

[ronott1]

Are you going to give them some fertile eggs?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

My 8yr old Welsummer, who almost didn't make it as a chick, laid an egg 2 days in a row! Go Grace!

So far this spring she's been laying about once a week. She was a hatchery chick from the feed store and the last Wellie left, put in the not-expected-to-survive brooder with the rest of the chicks who weren't doing well. She was a tiny thing, had an umbilical hernia, and I had to hand feed her drops of sugar water for the first couple of days before she perked up enough to eat on her own. Took about 2 weeks of careful nursing until she started to grow a bit, but she made it and is one of only 3 still alive from my original batch of chicks back in 2012.

Was it an omen that I told this story? Grace died yesterday.
She was laying down outside the night before instead of getting bedtime treats with the others. She let me pick her up and take her to the coop and she got herself to the top roost. Next morning, she was still up there, all droopy and breathing hard, so I put her in a dog crate and she died 20 minutes later. No visible clues as to what was wrong, she was a good weight and had laid an egg 2 days prior. Going to miss her, but glad she did not have a lingering death.

 

[BullChick]

Awe! I’m sorry.

 

[ronott1]

Was it an omen that I told this story? Grace died yesterday.
She was laying down outside the night before instead of getting bedtime treats with the others. She let me pick her up and take her to the coop and she got herself to the top roost. Next morning, she was still up there, all droopy and breathing hard, so I put her in a dog crate and she died 20 minutes later. No visible clues as to what was wrong, she was a good weight and had laid an egg 2 days prior. Going to miss her, but glad she did not have a lingering death.

I am very sorry!

They can go at anytime when they are older. It was likely cardiovascular and not cancer

 

[BullChick]

When one goes, they all go.