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[drumstick diva]

tjo makes perfect sense to me

 

[tjo804]

Cant think of anything else that explains practically every backyard Chicken on BYC not having eggs!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I dunno..... Sometimes I REALLY don't know.

I got divorced even though I didn't want to because I thought to myself: in 10 years, will I regret not leaving now?

The answer was yes.


My life is a lot different now, and I didn't have kids so I know it's not the same situation but I don't regret doing it. It was a crazy few years.



As far as not getting eggs, I hatched chicks in early spring so that I would have eggs this year. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM QUIT LAYING. Some are even molting and they're only a few months old. Most of them are legbars. I do not get it. This has never happened to me and is not supposed to happen.

I have 4 birds (out of about 50) laying right now - the 2 feedstore leghorns that I got this summer, and 2 other random old chickens that lay a green and a brown egg.

 

[bamadude]

I am getting 1 egg per day

 

[chickadoodles]

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I'll bet it was.

 

[chickadoodles]

We are getting 2-3 eggs a day.

 

[Peep_Show]

We're averaging 3 eggs out of the four actually laying hens (of the 9 total ladies). Some days it's two, some days it's four. Looking forward to more production in 2016.

 

[Peep_Show]

SCG --
I understand that sentiment completely. I was so very glad to have divorced at 40 rather than, say, 50 when it would've been so much harder to recoup and rebuild(**). I told one of my girlfriends that little idiom and it gave her the impetus to move from NYC back to her native CA because, as we all know, we're not getting any younger. She had just driven over state line in the U-Haul when the Twin Towers got hit on 9/11.


(**)My ex proclaimed he'd make me a bag lady (he was such a $$ control freak that during marriage I never had more than $3 cash in my wallet). Ha! He *had* to remarry as his habits made him financially unstable and unable to support himself. I had a brief bout of poverty (such is the reality post-divorce) and then thrived to the point that I retired on my own dime at Age 57. It's not easy to make and execute that decision to divide, but divorce is doable....just difficult and maddening for a bit.

 

[bruceha2000]

chica, my mother got gold shots for her RA.

So did my mother. No idea if they actually did any good at all. All of the knuckles on her hands were enlarged.

We are getting 2-3 eggs a day.

As am I. Two EE pullets and one White Rock Pullet ... or maybe two. Still not sure but this morning both Angel and Yuki were in nests so I can see if they are different colors or if Yuki's is small, as first eggs frequently are. I originally thought she was the first to lay because her comb was bigger first. So I figured they were both laying when I found Angel in a nest a week after the first brown egg. Angel's "first" was 50g, the first 3, presumably from Yuki were 46, 48, 50. So either it was Angel all along and she is a SUPER chicken or it is both of them and they are not great layers. I've not had 2 brown eggs in one day yet. 6 months old 2 weeks ago. The EEs are cranking out eggs every day for 3-5 days then taking a day off.

 

[Latestarter]

I got divorced even though I didn't want to because I thought to myself: in 10 years, will I regret not leaving now?

The answer was yes.

My life is a lot different now, and I didn't have kids so I know it's not the same situation but I don't regret doing it. It was a crazy few years.

SCG --
I understand that sentiment completely. I was so very glad to have divorced at 40 rather than, say, 50 when it would've been so much harder to recoup and rebuild(**). I told one of my girlfriends that little idiom and it gave her the impetus to move from NYC back to her native CA because, as we all know, we're not getting any younger. She had just driven over state line in the U-Haul when the Twin Towers got hit on 9/11.

(**)My ex proclaimed he'd make me a bag lady (he was such a $$ control freak that during marriage I never had more than $3 cash in my wallet). Ha! He *had* to remarry as his habits made him financially unstable and unable to support himself. I had a brief bout of poverty (such is the reality post-divorce) and then thrived to the point that I retired on my own dime at Age 57. It's not easy to make and execute that decision to divide, but divorce is doable....just difficult and maddening for a bit.

Congrats to both of you that it worked out best for your situation. It IS always a little difficult right after the change, but as with most things, recovery happens, we adapt, and if it was really so bad that leaving was best, than the end result HAS to be better than what was. Having gone through 2 divorces now (there will NEVER be an opportunity for a third), I've had a bit of the experience. The first one, I had sole custody of 3 young children (like 5/6/11), was on active duty in the Navy, on sea duty, and deployed/ing... But we survived and made it! I can't imagine what hell I'd be in now, if I hadn't left that situation when I did. Anyway, we all have to make life decisions and live with them. We just try to do what's best for all.