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[Stands With A Fiddle]

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Woohoo!!! I have 2 EE's also purchased around Easter that I'm on egg-watch with. That is very encouraging news!

 

[bootsuu]

Yay! Way to go late-laying EE's. I've been stressed for weeks hoping for eggs. We'll see how well it goes. This week (since the first tiny egg) has been the hardest.

 

[hen-thusiast]

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Congrats! One of our EEs was a month old by the time Easter came around... there are absolutely, positively no signs of egg-laying. We're hoping we get an egg from her by the time NEXT Easter comes around.

 

[muddypuddles]

Okay, I am finally going to do it! I am going to post that my bantam cochin hen has not laid one egg and is TWENTY-SEVEN WEEKS OLD! I figure if I post my frustration, She will lay--you know, like Murphy's law?

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

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I'll complain that my 25 week old hens (2 EE's, 1 bantam cochin, and 3 RIRs) are not laying yet. Also, my one mature hen that WAS laying decided to molt.

If I post to ask for chicken recipes, do you think they'll start?????

 

[muddypuddles]

Maybe

. I keep showing her eggs and telling her I need more but she just walks off! My other hen, the same age, has been laying for 7 or 8 weeks. Oh well...what can you do...?

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

I was just reminded of this bird-related joke. Don't know why any of this conversation reminded me of this (other than the chicken recipe comment I made), but it's funny so here it is:

So there's this fella with a parrot. And this parrot swears like a sailor - I mean he's a pistol. He can swear for 5 minutes straight without repeating himself. Trouble is, the guy who owns him is a quiet, conservative type, and this bird's fowl mouth is driving him crazy.

One day, it gets to be too much, so the guy grabs the bird by the throat, shakes him really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!". But this just makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever. Then the guy gets mad and says, "OK for you!" and locks the bird in a kitchen cabinet. This really aggravates the bird and he claws and scratches, and when the guy finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose with a stream of invective that would make a veteran sailor blush.

At that point, the guy is so mad that he throws the bird into the freezer. For the first few seconds there is a terrible din. The bird kicks and claws and thrashes. Then it suddenly gets_very_quiet.

At first the guy just waits, but then he starts to think that the bird may be hurt. After a couple of minutes of silence, he's so worried that he opens up the freezer door. The bird calmly climbs onto the man's out-stretched arm and says, "Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to improve my vocabulary from now on.".

The man is astounded. He can't understand the transformation that has come over the parrot. Then the parrot says, "By the way, pardon me for asking, but what did the chicken do?".​

 

[muddypuddles]

and that is an excellent post to log off to since my DD has a report due tomorrow and needs to type it. Thanks for the laugh!

 

[bootsuu]

Mine are 26 as of today, and I have only one tiny little green egg to show for it. I swear they're hiding them from me somewhere... I hope the little buggers aren't eating them... that'd really drive me nuts.


I can't wait... 10 mins then I get to go home and check on my mystery chick that was the only one to survive from the 6 I tried to hatch. He's looking good so far though.

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

Just wanted to update that my friend got bluemoonluck's Polish hens this weekend and they are GORGEOUS!!!!

Her kids are

them....