Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[DanaeRose]

Hello all...new to this thread, read a few pages and couldn't help but laugh. I live by albuquerque, nm and I am new to chickens, and after a few unfortunate accidents, a few lost birds and turning my chicken yard into fort Knox, I now have 4 wyandottes (2 silver laced, 2 golden laced), 1 Rhode island white ( that was given to my 4 year old cuz she wanted a white chicken...lol), and a huge teddy bear of a rooster named big Ben. They are all 1-2 except one golden. She is 4 but prone to broodiness. I have had the girls for about 2 weeks now and have yet to get any eggs. All but 1 silver are squating and have been for a few days now. I do have a heat lamp in my coop and are giving them warm water, plenty of feed... Don't know what else to do if anything.

 

[Scrambles55]

Hello all...new to this thread, read a few pages and couldn't help but laugh. I live by albuquerque, nm and I am new to chickens, and after a few unfortunate accidents, a few lost birds and turning my chicken yard into fort Knox, I now have 4 wyandottes (2 silver laced, 2 golden laced), 1 Rhode island white ( that was given to my 4 year old cuz she wanted a white chicken...lol), and a huge teddy bear of a rooster named big Ben. They are all 1-2 except one golden. She is 4 but prone to broodiness. I have had the girls for about 2 weeks now and have yet to get any eggs. All but 1 silver are squating and have been for a few days now. I do have a heat lamp in my coop and are giving them warm water, plenty of feed... Don't know what else to do if anything.

Welcome!! Its good to have you here. Your girls could be trying to get comfy in their new home. I have 4 girls and only one (my RIR) has been laying regularly. The other 3 are on a sporadic winter break. I beat my head against a wall because if it

, but I know that in time they will lay.

or else.....

 

[Whoops]

Hello all...new to this thread, read a few pages and couldn't help but laugh. I live by albuquerque, nm and I am new to chickens, and after a few unfortunate accidents, a few lost birds and turning my chicken yard into fort Knox, I now have 4 wyandottes (2 silver laced, 2 golden laced), 1 Rhode island white ( that was given to my 4 year old cuz she wanted a white chicken...lol), and a huge teddy bear of a rooster named big Ben. They are all 1-2 except one golden. She is 4 but prone to broodiness. I have had the girls for about 2 weeks now and have yet to get any eggs. All but 1 silver are squating and have been for a few days now. I do have a heat lamp in my coop and are giving them warm water, plenty of feed... Don't know what else to do if anything.

Hi there! I'm in Albuquerque. I imagine you will be getting eggs soon. It sounds like a beautiful flock.

 

[chickenlindz]

Welcome DanaeRose.

Just give them fresh food and water. Heat isn't really necessary if they are that old. It's surprising how hardy they really are. Oh don't forget PIE! You won't get any eggs without lots of pie!

Agh I just woke up from my nap... It was delightful!

I've officially lost it. I had a photo shoot today. I'm much braver w this lot cause I'm more comfortable around them now. I feel like a pro!!

 

[Scrambles55]

@chickenlindz That explains it. Pie.... my girls don't get pie, therefore, I don't get eggs.

 

[DanaeRose]

They are so pretty. If I could get my phone to post my pics I will

 

[SullyD]

DanaeRose! This is the best thread eva! Sorry, I am from Boston. When you have time, try to start from the beginning of this thread. It is hilarious! Lots of great people and great advice (don't listen to Roger's advice though, well, maybe about PIE).
CL-Love the pictures!!

OK and Cheeka, thanks for the advice on the BR's. The woman who taught part of the class, told me they were all pullets! I am going to see if I can exchange them! I am not too attached, yet!

Only 15 eggs today, bunch of slackers! No pie tomorrow! (JK, I am sure there would be no eggs for no PIE!)

 

[lindz8504]

Well, we got up and went to church this morning... I didn't open up the run since we weren't going to be home. I got home and went down to check on everyone. Feathers everywhere, and 6 of the chickens missing..... Everyone else was under or in the coop. I got some BOSS and coaxed them out... the new Roo came out from under the new building, so only 5 of the comet girls were missing. I got to looking and Giselle (one of the new EE's) looks funny and is just standing hunched up. I reached for her and she ducked under my hand, but I was touching her...My fingers got blood on them! So I spent half an hour trying to catch her and she kept running under the coop. When I finally got ahold of her, she had a big bald spot on the back of her hand, and a wound on the side of her neck. Hubby found the other Comet girls up next to the house in the brush and briars. So, I brought her in the house, used a syringe to squirt water into the wound and clean it out, and then put some Nustock on it. I kept her in a dog crate in the laundry room for a few hours and fed her. I took her back down to the coop when I went down to lock up. We will see how she is in the morning and go from there.

Graphic Photo!!!!!!!!

 

[chickenlindz]

What happened Lindz to cause the mayhem?

 

[lindz8504]

What happened Lindz to cause the mayhem?

I am thinking it may have been a hawk, because she and the feathers were in the run, and she was the only one injured.... there were no other signs of a bigger predator in the run, so I am thinking hawk...
And usually with the huskies, there is more damage.... So I count myself lucky that I have 0 losses and only 1 injury out of this attack!