Sumatra Thread!

[ramirezframing]

Quote:
lol yeah you would be hard pressed to get that many eggs outta 7 leghorn hens everyday.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Quote: Wow.......I didn't know that any breed of chicken that 7 hens lay 12 eggs any day much less every day but who knows..........maybe it's great feed or all the hot weather???

 

[NYREDS]

Wow.......I didn't know that any breed of chicken that 7 hens lay 12 eggs any day much less every day but who knows..........maybe it's great feed or all the hot weather???

or chickens owned by people who are really bad at math

 

[troyer]

I want some of your eggs then. Those are the layingest Sumatras I have heard of.

 

[championsumatra]

Quote: Really bad math?? How can it be when I gather the eggs every day and find 12 in there?

 

[BGMatt]

Really bad math?? How can it be when I gather the eggs every day and find 12 in there? 

He's saying what you claim is literally impossible. 7 birds cannot scientifically produce 12 eggs in a single day.

 

[cubakid]

Chickens of any breed require 24+ hours to develope a single egg. It takes a long time to form in the reproductive tract(6 or more hours alone in one, of many sections of the tract).

Your Sumatras look good! I especially like the third to last bird, a blue cockerel with a blue band. As to wet pox, I only had two get it and both died, and so it didn't spread.

Ramirezfarming, recounts through me off. There are actually 430 birds... Oops

 

[championsumatra]

Ok use your scientific logics. But what I am saying is the truth and I am not going any further than this. It is not imposible for a chicken to lay two eggs. haven't you ever heard of a double yoke egg? My friend had a guinea fowl that layed three to two eggs each time. She found it dead one day with it guts hanging out. She took it to the vet and explained how many the guinea layed and the vet told her that was the reason for it to die like that.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Ok use your scientific logics. But what I am saying is the truth and I am not going any further than this. It is not imposible for a chicken to lay two eggs. haven't you ever heard of a double yoke egg? My friend had a guinea fowl that layed three to two eggs each time. She found it dead one day with it guts hanging out. She took it to the vet and explained how many the guinea layed and the vet told her that was the reason for it to die like that.

so since your line of birds lay too many eggs too does this mean
yours are prone to prolapse and will die young?.....maybe you have
some other hens jumping in to help out on the egg count.

 

[ramirezframing]

Chickens of any breed require 24+ hours to develope a single egg. It takes a long time to form in the reproductive tract(6 or more hours alone in one, of many sections of the tract).

Your Sumatras look good! I especially like the third to last bird, a blue cockerel with a blue band. As to wet pox, I only had two get it and both died, and so it didn't spread.

Ramirezfarming, recounts through me off. There are actually 430 birds... Oops

Did you already cull some out? Sorry about your lost birds. Are you still gonna show this year?