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[Zgoatlady]

Hello Washing ton. My neighbor next door feeds the feral cats, and doesn't care that she is feeding raccoons and possums.

When I was a kid, in Southern Oregon, California King snakes and timber rattlers by the coop. Yikes. DH assures me that here are only garter snakes here. ( I haven't lived here for very long)

Welcome,
We are neighbors as a few others of us here. This is a great group.

 

[KMoran]

OK thanks guys. I was just worried she wasnt getting enough of somin. My coop has straw in it, they have nesting boxes but these last two eggs were on the floor. The one I got yesterday was hard shelled but very light almost pink with a little blood, this one was soft but strong enough for me to pick up and carry into the house without breaking it two had blood. My daughter is very excited her chicken is laying... She is gonna eat the eggs for breakfast tomorrow... Go Falcon! ( Thats her chickens name by the way)

 

[Zgoatlady]

Broody is fine. I am going to keep a laying flock as well.
It's either silkies or cochins.

I wasn't even considering silkies until I saw this.

I love my silkies, I would never be with out them. DH tried to tell me I had to do that this past month or so. So what did I do. I went and got a nice rooster and hen to go with my other 4 out there. That will show him! So silkies no wife....

 

[Zgoatlady]

Hello yall, Quick question.... Is it normal for a chicken to lay soft shell eggs when they first start to lay? I have 4 layin hens 3 Buff Orpingtons and 1 Rhode Island Red and never had a soft shell before. I believe my daughters Amaracana layed her first egg yesterday because it looks different then any other egg we have ever gotten and then today I found a soft shell... Not broken at all a whole egg just soft.

Should I be worried?

Thanks Bunches

No dont be worried, they will sometimes do this when they first start to lay. If your daughters is a true Amaracuana it will be a nice blue to blue green color.. If its a EE that it can be that and other colors...

 

[Zgoatlady]

So Im going to head back to bed. I was up last night again

so I tried to work today . Did my AM run and told them I couldnt do the PM one.. Been sleeping all day.

 

[hallerlake]

So I just went out to check on the birds and let the layers out to free range, which I did. Then I was walking over to the Orps coop area, and came across a HUGE pile of feathers. I'm so sad! I let out my Lav Orps yesterday, and something took one of my two split black hens!

At least I still have a pair left, but why one of the splits?!?!!?! Ugh. DH closed the birds in last night when he went to feed the goats, so he didn't notice the one missing as he just closed their gate. So now I am rethinking even working on the project. I might sell the whole flock and that would leave me more room for English Orps or BLRW's. Bummer.


All the chicks that have hatched are doing well. However, the Marans that had pipped died. I hear others cheeping in there, but no pips yet. Worried about them!

HOW do the predators know which ones we would miss most????

I'm sorry.

 

[hallerlake]

OK thanks guys. I was just worried she wasnt getting enough of somin. My coop has straw in it, they have nesting boxes but these last two eggs were on the floor. The one I got yesterday was hard shelled but very light almost pink with a little blood, this one was soft but strong enough for me to pick up and carry into the house without breaking it two had blood. My daughter is very excited her chicken is laying... She is gonna eat the eggs for breakfast tomorrow... Go Falcon! ( Thats her chickens name by the way)

Are they getting layer feed or oyster shell? They may, or may not, need more calcium.

 

[Kaneke]

[COLOR=0000CD]Hello yall, Quick question.... Is it normal for a chicken to lay soft shell eggs when they first start to lay? I have 4 layin hens  3 Buff Orpingtons and 1 Rhode Island Red and never had a soft shell before. I believe my daughters Amaracana layed her first egg yesterday because it looks different then any other egg we have ever gotten and then today I found a soft shell... Not broken at all a whole egg just soft.  Should I be worried?[/COLOR]

[COLOR=0000CD]Thanks Bunches[/COLOR]

No dont be worried, they will sometimes do this when they first start to lay.  If your daughters is a true Amaracuana it will be a nice blue to blue green color.. If its a EE that it can be that and other colors...

that's one neat thing about Easter Eggers, you never know what the pullet will lay until she actually does -- my six girls happen to lay slightly different color eggs from each other, so I generally know whose egg is whose ...

Ginger lays pink eggs (she missed the blue gene), Phoebe turquoise, Becky olive drab, Christina pale mint green to stony (and larger than anyone else's unless they lay double yolkers), Deirdre aqua, and Anitra light moss green

actually it's easier to tell the eggs apart, than the girls ! since they are the typical red-pheasant EEs (technically gold duckwings), all but Ginger probably carrying Columbian genes so they are more rust-red than Ginger who is nearly mahogany

DH wanted me to give them away or sell them, before we leave for an extended sojourn on Maui, but I like THOSE chickens, it wouldn't be the same to raise a new bunch of chicks, and I'd rather not deal again with a shower-full of chicks ! though I may break down and get some after we return anyway, they are so cuuuuuuute as babies ...

 

[KMoran]

See thats what I thought, I thought they only layed blue and green so I am stumpped. The guy at the coop where I got her in last September said she was a Amaracuana? So now I dunno lol. She's a great bird and my daughter loves her so I guess thats all that really matters

Here is a picture of the eggs. Soft shell on the left. And here is Falcon.

 

[Zgoatlady]

See thats what I thought, I thought they only layed blue and green so I am stumpped. The guy at the coop where I got her in last September said she was a Amaracuana? So now I dunno lol. She's a great bird and my daughter loves her so I guess thats all that really matters

Here is a picture of the eggs. Soft shell on the left. And here is Falcon.

Falcon is a pretty girl, she is a EE not a thing in the world wrong with them. Ive had them and also true Ameracuanas, loved them both.