Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[okallthis4eggs]

this is yesterdays then we got the bottom eggs to day the large light one is a first time laying chick from our sex licks, they will get bigger and darker as she starts to lay every day, we have 29 hens so i can not wait to get maybe 20 in one day.

With Sex Links you have the right birds to get that 20 a day. Laying machines they are. Are they all Sex Links?

 

[okallthis4eggs]

so many beautiful eggs! makin' me hungry!

so, that lady called me, she is on her way tonight. fine by me... so I went out with water, feed and a cup of corn to sprinkle on the fresh hay that I also just spread around... this way, they will have goodies first thing and won't be extra freaked out because of the move. it's supposed to hover around freezing over night, so the water should be fine - but I'll be up early enough...

she doesn't know breeds, technically, these are her boyfriends chickens, but she has been the one doing all the work... he wants to keep the older girls, all 18 months and give up the 6 month old chicks they hatched this past Spring. he's keeping the rooster too, thank goodness! I told her if I had to take the rooster, I would likely process him... she was cool with that... anyway, they are black, white and red, so I'm figuring Leghorns, RIR's... we'll see... she should be here any second!

HELP

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Tomorrow Begins A Increase, In The Numbers We Lay......unless she brings BR's.....slackers

 

[cheeka]

Gotta love non-chicken folk for their simplicity, or simplicidotisms... she brings this big box... and we carry it back to the pen, first bird out, a lovely white hen, not a leghorn, not sure what she is because it's dark, and I have only brought out a small LED flashlight so I don't disturb the roosters. not a leghorn, judging by the comb. she is the smallest of the 18 month old hens who is at the bottom of that order, but at the top of the chicks, so she thought it best to keep her safe and give her up...next a red hen, that she says might be a rooster because she has a couple of tail feathers with green sheen. but she's a hen, no doubt... next a golden hen, might be a golden comet... and another little reddish hen... next, a rooster. absolutely a rooster. looks like a NH red. he's juvenile, but certainly male.. then she pulls out a humongous white rooster, which she thinks is a hen. not. so not. thing is huge, surely crows... looks to be one of the 18 month old birds, he's fully plumed, quite handsome from what I could see...
anyway, up on the roost they went, after I calmed them by holding them one by one as they came out of the box. she didn't know they would sleep on the roost. she said they've been living in a rabbit hutch and sleeping in a pile, she wanted to leave the box for them to sleep in... they'll be fine. they didn't budge from the roost. I'll be up early to check them out and take some pictures... they need names, they didn't come with any. I might not name the boys if I am going to rehome or process them...at least 4 of them are girls...

 

[cheeka]

so these were technically her boyfriends birds, but she was stuck caring for them and because she is going away for the winter, she convinced him to reduce his #'s so it would be easier for him... he's attached to his older birds... thing is, she's trying to break up with him and get him out of her house... so he may end up having to place his other birds depending on where he moves. She's closing up her house in 2 weeks. he's in denial, but when the power is shut off, he'll have to face the hard facts...

 

[Whoops]

Well, I bet the girls will help your egg numbers!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

so these were technically her boyfriends birds, but she was stuck caring for them and because she is going away for the winter, she convinced him to reduce his #'s so it would be easier for him... he's attached to his older birds... thing is, she's trying to break up with him and get him out of her house... so he may end up having to place his other birds depending on where he moves. She's closing up her house in 2 weeks. he's in denial, but when the power is shut off, he'll have to face the hard facts...

Sounds like a bunch of boys need to be "processed". I'll help. Will she rent me the house?

 

[cheeka]

Oh Roger dear, how I would love to have you as my neighbor! maybe we can buy the "Nosey's" out - their house looks like a converted chicken coop anyway... you can have the master bedroom, it's painted red, you'd love it! the kids rooms are dark blue for him, purple for her, the kitchen is lime green and the living room is bright blue. looks like Walt Disney threw up inside...

 

[showbarnmom]

So, where do I find gold comets, what do they look like, and do they all lay speckled eggs? Never heard of them till this thread.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

So, where do I find gold comets, what do they look like, and do they all lay speckled eggs? Never heard of them till this thread.

AKA Red Sex Links. Hatchery will have them. Bred for egg production. They are a cross breed that cannot be reproduced by breeding them with one another. I will have some hatching eggs in the spring if you need some. My cross will be a RIR rooster and Delaware hens. They can be sexed as soon as they hatch by the color of their feathers thus called Red Sex Links. I can't speak for all of them but mine lay brown speckled eggs. They are a red hen with white streaks especially in the tail feathers. Those are Golden Comets behind Roger in her picture.

 

[showbarnmom]

Hmm...the black sex link I know lay standard light brown. I wonder if all red sex links lay speckled. I've heard of those lol.