Show off your Peas!

[Kedreeva]

Blood streak is normal not to worry, keep your eyes open if you do not find an egg in that spot within 2 or 3 days she may have set up a nest in another area and that first nest is her decoy nest, they will cover their eggs up also so you might have to move any debree that they can use like leaves or hay , one of my hens covered hers up with pine needles lufa sponges i threw in the multch pile, wan't expecting that and she had me fooled for a few days till i got to digging around in there LOL

Mine are all penned so they don't have much choice in where they lay, but I think mine may be broken because they just lay where-ever they happen to be standing at the time LOL! They tried to hide the first one between the nesting box dresser and a bale of hale, but when I took it I guess they were just like "WELL WHATEVER THEN." Now I find them just sitting in the middle of the floor. Under the perches. On hay bales. Pretty much the only places they don't lay are the hidey places I want them to lay in

 

[ellymayRans]

Blood streak is normal not to worry, keep your eyes open if you do not find an egg in that spot within 2 or 3 days she may have set up a nest in another area and that first nest is her decoy nest, they will cover their eggs up also so you might have to move any debree that they can use like leaves or hay , one of my hens covered hers up with pine needles lufa sponges i threw in the multch pile, wan't expecting that and she had me fooled for a few days till i got to digging around in there LOL

Ok. Thanks. What a nightmare though. .our woods are mostly underbrush..briar bushes and lots of down trees and leaves, limbs..you name it! It's a chore just to walk through but I can't imagine trying to dig through any of it! Sigh...

 

[zazouse]

I have learned to locate pretty much after they have laid their 2nd egg if i know the general area i can find the nest 90% of the time even if it is covered up , thing is you can watch them from a distance all day long and they may never go to the nest, i had a white hen walk the pasture fence line for three days before she settled on a spot, i found here first egg yesterday hope she keeps laying there but this could be a decoy as she laid in a guinea nest i had also been looking for and could not find.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

One of my favorite shots this season:

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Notice how the **nice** hen got all his neck feathers

 

[Birdrain92]

That's kind of how I'm feeling. There have been things that work sometimes even better than modern but everybody forgot the old methods for other things. I'm going to try it with my animals.

 

[ellymayRans]

No egg today. She was in the coop for awhile but notta.

 

[margaret8]

Guess what???? I candles my eggs last night and.....the first pea egg I put in the bator....I saw the embryo moving

in fact after the first ones was that were not fertile the rest have been fertile!! I am going to have guineas running out my ears!!

 

[margaret8]

i was wondering I've got 3 pea eggs and it has been better than a week since I got one. I have 3 hens that are 20 mo old and the male is the same age. I've never seen mate. He has eyes in his tail. Are the hens through?

 

[KsKingBee]

i was wondering I've got 3 pea eggs and it has been better than a week since I got one. I have 3 hens that are 20 mo old and the male is the same age. I've never seen mate. He has eyes in his tail. Are the hens through?

I wonder if the cold snap didn't put her on hold for a few days. I was getting three or four eggs per day and the cold came through and it went down to two for a few days and a couple of days none. So far I have collected over 60 eggs and got my first IB last night. So far I have been cendling out about one in six due to either being clear or cracked from being perch bombs.