Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[ronott1]

Very pretty egg!

I found one like that from a brown egg layer, cleaned it off and added it to scrambled eggs for breakfast.

 

[lindz8504]

I'm in shock! Ratchet came up to me for lovins today! Normally he shys away from me, but will go right up to hubby and the kids. It was a nice surprise.
3 eggs today. I'm wondering if I don't have a hidden nest somewhere..... who knows where to even begin to look for it though. I checked under the coop and in the smaller coop but none there. I guess, it could be in the woods somewhere.
Crazy busy week ahead. Doctors appts and then my birthday is Saturday and Hubby's and his twin brother's is the 23rd.... then of course Christmas!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Ratchet must have known we were talking trash about Heelers around poultry and is trying to kiss up!

Early happy birthday wishes, Lindz. You sure have an extra busy holiday with all the celebrations.

I got 1 Silkie and 1 Serama egg today.

That's about 3 whole bites of scrambled egg.

Something strange is going on with my SLWyandotte (hatchery). She had a really hard molt that started a couple of months ago. For a while she was pretty bald and then she looked like a porcupine with all the pin feathers. Thought she was just slower than all the others growing those feathers back, but she looks so raggedy. Most of the feathers she's grown have the fuzzy fluff part, but the outer ends of the feathers are incomplete. There's only a little bit of the webbed portion of the feather in some areas and much of her just looks white and fuzzy. I checked her over really well for mites, but she's clean as a whistle. Has anybody ever seen something like this? Looks like she's been gnawed on by a dog. When it stops raining, I'll get a picture.

 

[ronott1]

Ratchet must have known we were talking trash about Heelers around poultry and is trying to kiss up!

Early happy birthday wishes, Lindz. You sure have an extra busy holiday with all the celebrations.

I got 1 Silkie and 1 Serama egg today.

That's about 3 whole bites of scrambled egg.

Something strange is going on with my SLWyandotte (hatchery). She had a really hard molt that started a couple of months ago. For a while she was pretty bald and then she looked like a porcupine with all the pin feathers. Thought she was just slower than all the others growing those feathers back, but she looks so raggedy. Most of the feathers she's grown have the fuzzy fluff part, but the outer ends of the feathers are incomplete. There's only a little bit of the webbed portion of the feather in some areas and much of her just looks white and fuzzy. I checked her over really well for mites, but she's clean as a whistle. Has anybody ever seen something like this? Looks like she's been gnawed on by a dog. When it stops raining, I'll get a picture.

One of the worm medicines will make the feathers come in funky.

Up the protein and see what happens. Also, did you check for feather lice?

 

[Scrambles55]

A beautiful and perfect 47 gram egg from Little Bit. Joy!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Beautiful color on that egg, Scrambles!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Thanks Ron. She wasn't wormed and gets extra protein. I didn't see any mites, but will have to look again when some one can help hold the flishlight.

It is POURING here! The gutters are overflowing! We must be under one of those orange-red zones on the colored weather maps.
Please keep the power on. Please keep the power on.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Ron, forgot to say, love your Christmasized avatar. Very nice!

The site is wiggy. No smileys or editing for me tonight. (frowny face)

 

[cheeka]

popping by to say hi! we're good up here, 2' of heavy snow fell, power surges killed the desktop computer but the furnace survived the blasting currents, one of my surge protectors exploded, lit the carpet on fire, but I was right there, so just a good scorch mark and nothing more. the new roof on the back pen is perfect... only little Esther is laying, but she hardly ever skips a day... work is insane for another 10 days. I'm pooped, but getting just enough flock time to keep me going!

 

[ronott1]

Ron, forgot to say, love your Christmasized avatar. Very nice!

The site is wiggy. No smileys or editing for me tonight. (frowny face)

Thanks!

Cynthia12 made it for me.

BYC seems to be working better now!

Feather lice are hard to see sometimes.