Show off your Peas!

[WestKnollAmy]

I spent the first part of the spring telling mine to hurry up and lay and now I am telling them to please so down!

 

[KsKingBee]

I have one pen with four hens that have given me two eggs so far.

 

[Garden Peas]

Ive got a couple of hens behind as well, this weather is crazy,

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Gerald Barker

Smart girls -- they don't want to have to carry their eggs to the boat!

(Hopefully you aren't flooding where you are?)

 

[barkerg]

Ive got an IB hen that laid 28ea straight this year, I left eggs for her to set thinking that would stop her, after 14ea eggs I realized something is not right, I had to move her out of the pen away from her man to get her to stop. She laid 31+ in a row at the end of last year. Something hormonally is out of whack for sure. Too bad she's not a green, at this rate she will be burnt out pretty fast and probably will not live past 10yrs old.

Gerald Barker

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Holey moley! I have never heard of one hen laying so many in a stretch!
What is she? I mean... is she out of IBs and not a split of any sort in her background?

 

[Garden Peas]

Holey moley! I have never heard of one hen laying so many in a stretch!
What is she? I mean... is she out of IBs and not a split of any sort in her background?

My BS hen did something in the 30 - 40 range last year before I got smart and left the eggs to pile up. This year, she was going great guns, and somewhere in the 20's she dragged all the ceramic duds together, added a few more of her own and a couple that she stole from the other hen that was laying, and she stopped, thank goodness. I think @DylansMom mentioned having had a marathon-laying hen or three also...

 

[Garden Peas]

Ive got an IB hen that laid 28ea straight this year, I left eggs for her to set thinking that would stop her, after 14ea eggs I realized something is not right, I had to move her out of the pen away from her man to get her to stop. She laid 31+ in a row at the end of last year. Something hormonally is out of whack for sure. Too bad she's not a green, at this rate she will be burnt out pretty fast and probably will not live past 10yrs old.

Gerald Barker

Have you considered the possibility that the greens have quietly worked a deal on the side with her? Maybe she's the designated surrogate mom?

 

[bockbock2008]

My newly acquired silver pied male. He's only 2 but next year he should make some pretty babies!

 

[casportpony]

Ive got an IB hen that laid 28ea straight this year, I left eggs for her to set thinking that would stop her, after 14ea eggs I realized something is not right, I had to move her out of the pen away from her man to get her to stop. She laid 31+ in a row at the end of last year. Something hormonally is out of whack for sure. Too bad she's not a green, at this rate she will be burnt out pretty fast and probably will not live past 10yrs old.

Gerald Barker

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/egglaying.html

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

My newly acquired silver pied male. He's only 2 but next year he should make some pretty babies!