the [egg] wait is driving me crazy!!!

[lburress]

24 weeks this Wednesday. I'm losing my mind.

 

[kari_dawn]

I swear they are taunting me.

 

[cravenchx]

My roo starting crowing last night. Can't help
but think the ladies will start laying soon!

 

[kari_dawn]

wouldn't that be awesome

do you keep your roos or get rid of them?

 

[cravenchx]

First time with chickens, so the plan is now
to keep him.

 

[stcroixusvi]

I was told the longer the hens wait, the better. Our first one was 19-20 weeks, I think, but we still have hens that haven't laid, and they just turned 26 weeks on Tuesday. Out of 18 hens, 6 are not laying.

If they start laying early, you have a greater chance of issues like egg binding and prolapsed vent, which is what I am faced with this morning - awful awful, I do hope our hen makes it. She was one of the earliest layers.

 

[kari_dawn]

I hope she pulls through

I had no idea there was a corolation?

 

[Tracydr]

I just got my first Easter Egg! I've been getting tiny little banty eggs for a month but this is my first LF egg. And, even more exciting is that all the girls are trying out the nest boxes today!

 

[cravenchx]

Went out to the coop this morning
and noticed Brucilla staring at the
nesting boxes. I thought, ok, she's
getting ready. Then noticed she was
pulling the straw from the box. Was
she hungry, or "nesting"?

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

Wel today I got 2 eggs. I was getting 1 egg a day for the last 3 days but this morning I got 2 eggs. Well I was telling them i was going to everyone of them if I didn't get an egg just 1 egg before December 31st I guess now that I got 5 all their lives are spared. i love the eggs they are so much better then a store egg.