Tell me I'm not alone!! Still waiting for my first egg..... *update*

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Tell me someone else out there has not gotten eggs yet this year? I have a 12 month old girl and a 9 month old girl in with a 12 month old tom. They get plenty of light (natural, 13+ hours/day), turkey grower pellets, fresh water, lots of room (just the three of them in an 8x12 coop) and the weather has been unseasonably warm.

I am anxiously awaiting my first egg. The suspense is killing me!!!

*******4/12/10 Shall go down in the history of the One Acre Wonder Farm as the day we received our first turkey egg!!

now if I can only bring myself to crack it to see if it is fertile....

Oh man oh man oh man I can't wait for POULTS

 

[longranger]

Do they free range during the daytime? If yes they may be laying outside the coop.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Nope, I refuse to let them free range for that exact reason

 

[longranger]

Then it is probably just bad luck that you have two hens that are slow to start laying. Sure sounds like you are doing everything right. Has the tom been doing the deed?

 

[houndit]

Mine have not started laying yet. They should anytime.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

I think you are right LR, they're probably just slow! I have not seen the Tom do his thing... When I am outthere he is far too busy trying to impress me to pay any attention to his girls

people nearby have laying turkeys.... The lack of eggs from my own girls is so disappointing! Come on ladies, get to it!!!

 

[farmerlor]

I'm sorry but you ARE alone. LOL! No seriously, my girlies JUST started laying. The Bourbon hen had laid a few eggs but I was impatiently waiting for the Midgets to start. I put a pile of oyster shell in their coop and started giving them some fresh greens and three days later I got my first egg from them. They've graced me with an egg or two every day since then. My girls DO free range but I really think the addition of the oyster shell and/or the fresh greens is what got them jump started.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Quote:

. Farmerlor! I spit water all over when I read that!!

I'll try the greens and oystershell... I'd try anything at this point!!!

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

It figures... all I had to do was post complaining that I hadn't gotten an egg yet in order to get an egg!!!!

 

[turkey guru]

once the season hits, I switch to layer mash,everything to make an egg feed, am I right who knows (I do) 350 turkey eggs collected this year 49 hens, not counting today and 28 ringneck pheasants eggs 6 hens, relax this is just the start of the season!!!!!! all birds are not the same my beltsville started laying in feb!!!!! my fist egg last year was march14th tom!!