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I really miss those light cream colored eggs from the Sisters. lol But there yolks were always so pale yellow in comparison to everyone else. I could never figure it out. Have their yolk colors darkened sence coming home with you Chickielady?
My four pullets are still holding out on me. Still no eggs, and its driving my nutty! I really want to get some chicks, but poor Illia... So many bad things can happen. So now I am toying with the idea of getting an incubator and setting it up for a early febuary set date. And just ordering hatching eggs. Hopefully through Illia or Pips&Peeps, but who knows now. This year has been OH SO funky, and has thrown all the critters off.
I have wormed the biddies and they are at this very moment up to their gizzards in the compost which I turned this morning and must have quite a few BILLIONS of FAT monster night crawlers in there.
The biddies are doing an egg a day, pale pink with a few crusty sprinkles on them...and the yolk has 'oranged up' although the egg shells themselves are still on the thin side as compared to the Marans...maybe due to the biddies age ?
They are very busy girls, hunting for worms and bugs and tid bits under every leaf...I really like them alot, nice to get along with, easy going albeit bossy and GRUMBLY when I over sleep and fail to show up before daylight to let them out !
They are awfully nice old biddies...white wine dots !!!
How old are your pullets ?
Usually 6-7 months is the time, but if they are in dark or dim light they may not start to lay until spring...gotta have 10-12 hours of light at the minimum.
I really miss those light cream colored eggs from the Sisters. lol But there yolks were always so pale yellow in comparison to everyone else. I could never figure it out. Have their yolk colors darkened sence coming home with you Chickielady?
My four pullets are still holding out on me. Still no eggs, and its driving my nutty! I really want to get some chicks, but poor Illia... So many bad things can happen. So now I am toying with the idea of getting an incubator and setting it up for a early febuary set date. And just ordering hatching eggs. Hopefully through Illia or Pips&Peeps, but who knows now. This year has been OH SO funky, and has thrown all the critters off.
I have wormed the biddies and they are at this very moment up to their gizzards in the compost which I turned this morning and must have quite a few BILLIONS of FAT monster night crawlers in there.
The biddies are doing an egg a day, pale pink with a few crusty sprinkles on them...and the yolk has 'oranged up' although the egg shells themselves are still on the thin side as compared to the Marans...maybe due to the biddies age ?
They are very busy girls, hunting for worms and bugs and tid bits under every leaf...I really like them alot, nice to get along with, easy going albeit bossy and GRUMBLY when I over sleep and fail to show up before daylight to let them out !
They are awfully nice old biddies...white wine dots !!!
How old are your pullets ?
Usually 6-7 months is the time, but if they are in dark or dim light they may not start to lay until spring...gotta have 10-12 hours of light at the minimum.
