Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[cheeka]

lindz! well done!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

lindz! well done!

Congrats on the eggs and 10 points for the poem!

 

[Reina Rana]

Look what I came home to! I think I only have 2 layers....but one is super sneaky and has been laying in the brooder in the aisle of the barn....outside the coop.

Also...this boy has giant hands...they're small, but not as small as they look! The light ones are actually a pinky color...sneaky Chimi is an Araucana/EE...so should be laying other than brown, is pink part of that spectrum?

 

[Sallysec]

I feel like EE can lay whatever they want to lay lol. I had four...all different eggs. Although two laid a nice blue egg. One a greenish color...the last one lays a pinkish pale brown egg.

 

[cheeka]

my non blue/green laying EE's lay a variety of cream colors, some definitely have or take on a pinkish hue when in the basket with other colors. and some are undeniably light brown.


they look lighter out in the sunshine...

even Mylee says the pale cream eggs are Pink. I say cream... but... I'm wrong, they do look a lot like the BR eggs, but the BR eggs are quite round... the rest of proper egg shape.

 

[Sallysec]

Exactly...I call it cream and am told its a pink/brown lol

 

[cheeka]

they are too funny... protecting their Mama... and that is what they are doing... they block her from my view every which way I peek in! I didn't want to go in her pen on my last check. it's so close, if any are going to hatch, it will be now through morning. (last night was day 21's start.) I really hope something hatches...

 

[BullChick]

My bantam Cochin has begun laying. Two so far. To my knowledge, the fourth Leghorn hasn't begun.
Sally, no second incubator!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

I've decided that this whole early morning thing is for the birds... and nothing good came of getting up at the crack of dawn. No Violet and no chicks (yet) she's glued to that nest so tight I couldn't see a thing, but it's pretty quiet. her overgrown chicks are starting to honk but they still peep too, so it's frustrating to not be able to properly hear... I got about 4 hours sleep... it's gonna be a long day. OK, if the coyote or whatever got a good grip on the first grab, wouldn't it be likely to not see feathers? or if it was able to get her from the head first... I know feathers would get snagged on things that it runs passed, I see no feathers anywhere... but I also have no clue where she might have disappeared from... like front or back or side of the house.

Anytime a chicken is grabbed by a predator there is a violent struggle. The predator has to get the right spot on his prey and will keep grabbing till it gets the right spot so it can dispatch it's prey. Between the violent struggle by the chicken and the vicious attack of the predator there will be feathers shed. Finding feathers will only give you closure in knowing a predator got it. So finding no feathers is what made me believe there was hope. Coons are mostly nocturnal and do better at night killing roosted chickens that are easy targets. Most dogs don't fear people and would not have made such a clean,sneaky, precise kill and ran off in a hurry with the prey. I doubt a hawk could have killed and flew off with a large fowl bird leaving no sign. Fox or coyote is my guess but there should be feathers somewhere. Hope this is not too graphic.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

Got home late tonight and my other BR is spending the night sitting on todays eggs. Lowest bird in the pecking order so I really hope she is going broody. Her bare back needs the relief from the thugs she lives with. Would work out perfect if she is broody.....OH ....she is the Devils sister but totally opposite of her