Tasha is 14.5 weeks old--trust me, I've counted and recounted; she hatched Christmas Day. She lives in the Old Ladies' Coop with the broody hen who raised her and my older hens and my banty Cochin plus a 15 week old D'Uccle trio. Found a small, oddly shaped egg yesterday. Everyone in that coop who is laying already laid except my 5 yr old RIR, Reba. I thought maybe Reba laid a clunker. Well, today, I found another one, exactly the same odd shape, rough with tiny calcium bumps, slightly flattened on one side, in the same nest.
This egg is larger than any D'Uccle pullet egg would be and is a brown egg, though today's is slightly lighter in color than yesterday's. The only choice is Tasha, who is very pinky-red in the face now and has been inspecting the nests over the past week closely. I've never heard of a Delaware laying this early, have you? My earliest was 18 weeks and joletabey had one from the same lines who laid at 17 weeks. Why so darn early? That really isn't good for her to start this early, but she did.
Tasha is in this short video of my D'Uccle cockerel crowing:
http://s673.photobucket.com/albums/vv95/Mtnviewpoultry/Video Clips/?action=view¤t=DSCN1385.mp4
This egg is larger than any D'Uccle pullet egg would be and is a brown egg, though today's is slightly lighter in color than yesterday's. The only choice is Tasha, who is very pinky-red in the face now and has been inspecting the nests over the past week closely. I've never heard of a Delaware laying this early, have you? My earliest was 18 weeks and joletabey had one from the same lines who laid at 17 weeks. Why so darn early? That really isn't good for her to start this early, but she did.
Tasha is in this short video of my D'Uccle cockerel crowing:
http://s673.photobucket.com/albums/vv95/Mtnviewpoultry/Video Clips/?action=view¤t=DSCN1385.mp4
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