Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[okallthis4eggs]

We've been getting 7 or 8 eggs most of this summer since the girls got into the swing of laying. Then with hot temps and my BA deciding to go broody, the egg count dropped to 5 or 6 for the past few weeks. Couple of times we only got 4 (out of 8 possible).

This is Matilda the Broody.


The Broody's Lament

I sit and sit and sit all day. Never have I felt this way.
The urge I have is very strong. I'll stay in this nest. To leave would feel wrong.
The others are squawking and having fun. They're getting treats out in the run!
But here I sit and here I'll stay. Never have I felt his way.

I dream of little fluffy rears, and cheeping, peeping darling dears.
The other girls will envy me, because I'll have a family!
The few times that I do go out, I hurry, eat, and race about.
The nest is calling, I cannot wait. Speed through a dust bath. I can't be late!
Then back I go. It feels so right. So here I sit, day and night.

The girls come in to lay their eggs and tease me that I've lost my legs.
But I don't mind if they have fun, for I will be the lucky one!
To cuddle and teach my little chicks all the important chicken tricks.
Scratch and peck and chase the bugs, run back to mama for safety and hugs.
Oh that will be a happy day! Never have I felt his way.

But sitting on this empty nest is really putting me to the test.
Today when I went out to eat, I gobbled an apple, so tasty and sweet.
The sun fell warmly on my wings, and I started noticing other things,
Like the pattern of shade under the tree, just one of the beautiful things to see,
Those dogs, the dirt, lovely green plants, the sky, the birds and bees and ants.

This world is truly so wondrous and great. I'm thinking just maybe my family can wait.
I'm young, I need some time to grow, and the people love my eggs, I know,
And so, I guess it would be best, if I stop sitting on that nest.
But I'll go back sometime, someday, especially when I have to lay.

To raise some chicks was worth a try, but for now I think I just want pie!


Well, I can now announce that not only is the BA a non-broody, she has started laying again! .... Sort of..... See that little teeny tiny egg? Smaller than a golf ball! Kind of like she's slowly gearing up for the jumbos.

Seven, seven!

Mom's in heaven cause we laid seven!

Excellent ....."The Broody Lament" is one for the book. Your situation sounds lot like mine

 

[cheeka]

W4W!!!

The Broody's Lament is brilliant! and the bitty egg is perfect in'it??

 

[BullChick]

SOMEONE jinxed me! I dropped my first egg today!

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I find the dogs like it when I drop an egg, I feel that stare, just willing it to happen. Drop it drop it I hear them chant. Maybe we'll trip her, do we dare?

 

[cheeka]

SOMEONE jinxed me! I dropped my first egg today!

OH NO! S'my fault... I'm the jinxsetter ~ doncha just hate when that happens??? ~tee-hee~ jk!

 

[BullChick]

The dog was very happy. When he realized that it was in his dish anyway. Before that, he thought I had forgotten him.
I still have 3 plus dozen in the house, and one dozen in the coop fridge. Not like it is a huge deal. i just don't like being jinxed by SOMEONE!

 

[animallover505]

Hey guys! So I got 5 new hens. My friend got them around Easter this year. They are 5 golden Comet hens. I don't know if they are laying yet, though.

 

[BullChick]

They certainly should be. But they may hold out for pie.

 

[animallover505]

I figured they were.

 

[cheeka]

someone...eh?

animallover505... you know they are "Pie Hold-Outs"...

today, I got one brown, and one green! I was very careful and didn't drop either one of them. i put together my first perfect half dozen to give away to my fiance's Mom ~ he has said more than once... "if there is a chick in one of those..."