The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[immyjay54]

Is there anything you recommend I do? other than ordering more chicks? I really like these hens. Having only the 3 heritage hens I have become quite attached to them and the idea of having their offspring for years to come. My laver chickens get attention too but not nearly as much of me watching them forage.

Sally, I really feel for you but the only ones that I ever heard of laying that many double yoke eggs are the Red or Black stars. But even they quit after they get into rhythm. This usually happens with young girls just starting to lay but once the egg tracks get to working it will quit. You may get one once in a while but I've never had this with the reds.
Sorry, can't help much. I will do some research on this matter and see if I can find anything to help you out. I really don't think that your feed etc has anything to do with it but who am I to say.l lol
Jim

 

[slockey]

Here is a pic that shows the nice color on these birds.

 

[immyjay54]

You have some very nice looking birds. Here are a few pics of my breeding pen cockerels. They are Adrian Rademacher blood line birds. They were hatched back in Feb.

Only going by the pictures. The top one looks pretty nice but the bottom on doesn't look like he has the width to the back all the way to the tail and just doesn't seem to have the mass that the top one has. If this is the same bird then it has to be the way the photo's were taken. They appear to have nice color to them, nice level backs. Just my opinion and I'm sure not the expert. lol

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Thank you. Another thread has a poster who thinks I'm feeding them too much fat as the yolk is the fattier part of the egg. They have been laying for a while but I will keep waiting. I get an egg every other day sometimes every 3rd day. Maybe they are taking too long to lay. I'm hoping it is something I am doing, so i can change what I am doing.

 

[immyjay54]

 

[immyjay54]

Gosh, triple posted

 

[immyjay54]

Thank you. Another thread has a poster who thinks I'm feeding them too much fat as the yolk is the fattier part of the egg. They have been laying for a while but I will keep waiting. I get an egg every other day sometimes every 3rd day. Maybe they are taking too long to lay. I'm hoping it is something I am doing, so i can change what I am doing.

Sally, I just found this and this is and was always my thoughts. ????? I forget who you got your birds from, I know you have told us on here but I would ask if they ever had this problem and if so, if you are wanting to set eggs I would maybe get a few more from someone else not use eggs from these girls for setting. Some of the stuff that I read says heredity. ????? I sure hope that no one thinks that I'm talking down on anyones chickens.
Jim

Well, a hen’s reproductive system consists of an ovary and an oviduct. The ovary contains undeveloped egg yolks (the number of yolks (or ovum) that are contained here are the total number of eggs the chicken will lay in her life) that are released into the oviduct as each yolk develops, usually about an hour after the previous egg was laid. However, in young pullets and some heavy breed hens, two yolks are sometimes released within a couple of hours, and these become double-yolked eggs.
Heredity can cause some hens or breeds to have a higher propensity for double yolks; but it most often occurs in pullets that are just beginning to lay. It sometimes takes a bit for their systems to “get-in-the-groove” of egg laying. Typically, as hens mature, their systems settle down and they’ll produce one single-yolk egg approximately every 25 hours.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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It may be that they are taking a while to settle. I'll send a PM after the holidays to the breeder I got them from if it continues. I can't image that he has this problem as he has sent out lots of chicks. I do like the super giant eggs for eating so all is not lost but I did want to hatch their eggs.
My other thoughts included climate differences. As Indiana weather much like your weather has snow and cold but a full week of snow does not really get down south where these chicks came from.

 

[ronott1]

This is what I think of for a fountain waterer. http://meyerhatchery.com/productinf...D=AKSF&grd_prodone_filter=PRODUCT_ID = 'AKSF'

I have two of those. I really like them.

 

[ronott1]

It may be that they are taking a while to settle. I'll send a PM after the holidays to the breeder I got them from if it continues. I can't image that he has this problem as he has sent out lots of chicks. I do like the super giant eggs for eating so all is not lost but I did want to hatch their eggs.
My other thoughts included climate differences. As Indiana weather much like your weather has snow and cold but a full week of snow does not really get down south where these chicks came from.

Yes this. If they are very nice you can still hatch the single yolked eggs. A lot of people like double yolked eggs. They just do not hatch well.