Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Wishing4Wings]

Look at the size variation we've got. The tiny egg was in the run the first week of laying and almost overlooked. The huge one came last week. Over 2.5 inches long! We haven't cracked it open yet.

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The big one will be a double yoke. My eggs are starting to get some size now. The broody got up this evening to grab something to eat then right back in the nest box. Had a golf ball in one nest box and the other two empty so she just got in a empty box and sat on nothing.

You were right! Double yolk! Pretty sure it was from the gold sex link. Poor girl. Made me wince when I saw that egg.

 

[cheeka]

W4W ~ that's so awesome! someday... I'll get an egg... even a fart egg would be celebrated...

 

[okallthis4eggs]

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You were right! Double yolk! Pretty sure it was from the gold sex link. Poor girl. Made me wince when I saw that egg.

If a gold sex link laid any of those eggs it had to be the big brown egg or the tiny small egg.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

W4W ~ that's so awesome! someday... I'll get an egg... even a fart egg would be celebrated...

I'm rootin' for ya, cheeka!!!!
Still waiting for one last girl to start myself. She's over 6 and a half months now. Wondering if she's ever going to lay.

If a gold sex link laid any of those eggs it had to be the big brown egg or the tiny small egg.

I've got 5 different pullets laying shades of medium brown! By process of elimination, it seems to be the GSL because I usually don't see her on the nest unless I'm out really early, and that color egg is the first laid each morning. She doesn't make much of a fuss like the others either, so it's been hard to tell who is lays what.

Only 5 eggs today out of eight possible. Broody is still brooding, all fluffed up and trying to get the other pullets interested in eating when I put her outside. Maybe she'll be a good mama someday!

 

[cheeka]

y'know... thinking it all over, I am perfectly happy with the gang and no eggs... I'm not doing anything to try to stimulate laying other than feeding layer feed, and oyster shell... and of course Pie. I'm pretty sure Wilma and Rose will start first in another week or 2, and the rest, maybe - maybe not before Spring. If it's Springtime, that just gives me 6 months longer laying in the future. they are so enjoyable and amusing, it's worth the wait... I've been reading about the lengths folks will go to for those eggs, and it just seems unfair to try to fool nature.

I'll still look at least when I get home from work, wouldn't want one to sit out there unnoticed...and uncelebrated...

 

[okallthis4eggs]

I'm rootin' for ya, cheeka!!!!
Still waiting for one last girl to start myself. She's over 6 and a half months now. Wondering if she's ever going to lay.

I've got 5 different pullets laying shades of medium brown! By process of elimination, it seems to be the GSL because I usually don't see her on the nest unless I'm out really early, and that color egg is the first laid each morning. She doesn't make much of a fuss like the others either, so it's been hard to tell who is lays what.

Only 5 eggs today out of eight possible. Broody is still brooding, all fluffed up and trying to get the other pullets interested in eating when I put her outside. Maybe she'll be a good mama someday!

I have four golden comets and they all lay those brown color eggs like the big one in your picture. The blue egg...no way The white egg...no way The light color brownish egg looks like a egg from my BR's or BO's. Thats how I came to my conclusion. But i'm no expert either

 

[okallthis4eggs]

y'know... thinking it all over, I am perfectly happy with the gang and no eggs... I'm not doing anything to try to stimulate laying other than feeding layer feed, and oyster shell... and of course Pie. I'm pretty sure Wilma and Rose will start first in another week or 2, and the rest, maybe - maybe not before Spring. If it's Springtime, that just gives me 6 months longer laying in the future. they are so enjoyable and amusing, it's worth the wait... I've been reading about the lengths folks will go to for those eggs, and it just seems unfair to try to fool nature.

I'll still look at least when I get home from work, wouldn't want one to sit out there unnoticed...and uncelebrated...

I'm beginning to wonder if maybe the pie was introduced to them a little early. Maybe in the chicken mind the thinking might be "Why lay eggs when you can get the pie free"

 

[cheeka]

I'm beginning to wonder if maybe the pie was introduced to them a little early. Maybe in the chicken mind the thinking might be "Why lay eggs when you can get the pie free"

... I don't know... I was giving them "bombs" before pie... maybe I "blew" it

a bomb was yogurt topped watermelon with mixed berries... so spoiled.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Remember that little ear flap, the color usually corresponds to the color of the egg. But always an exception to the rule, my black hens lay olive color eggs. I had one with a little tan ear flap and her eggs were exactly a matched tan color. It's an easy way to tell who laid what egg, unless your hens are all the same color. Speaking of feather color, anybody collecting those pretty feathers? Just wondering for some feedback since I have a tacklebox full of them and thinking of making ornaments. For years I've kept an osprey feather hanging on the rear view and thinking it would be neat to make some dangles, naturally with some of those deerskin scraps (I have a bushel full) and beads and such. There will be alot of indoor time with winter coming...I just think they are like seashells, each one is interesting, and some ae just fascinating to me...and of course I have most of captains tail when a wolf tore it off. Any comments/suggestions?

 

[BullChick]

I forgot the raisins! It is so cold out there, I knew I NEEDED to make oatmeal for the chickens. I put fresh pumpkin in it (well, they can't eat it plain!

), and brought it out. I came back inside, and saw the raisins on the counter.

How could I forget something so important?