When will my 24 week old buffs give me an egg??

[PAJerry]

Orps are slow to start. My Golden Comets started at 21 weeks but the Orps are just starting now at 25. First eggs are very long but narrow, but will hopefullly get bigger in time. The combination of the dark Comet eggs and much lighter Orp eggs looks nice in the carton.

 

[joebryant]

My dark-blue Orpingtons were hatched May 15. Using the calculator program http://www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp shows me that they are 177 days old, or 25 weeks and two days. They are still giving me no signs of being ready to lay. The rooster isn't even trying to mate with them. He seems to know that they're too immature. He was mating with my silkie hen though before I put her in a seperate coop for protection from him.

 

[digitS']

Joe, I was using timeanddate.com. Using your calculator, I checked the days since my birthdate . . .

So then I thought of Dad . . . he will be 91 years-old in a couple of months so with a crooked little smile on my face

, I type in his birthday (2/15/1918)
. . . ya know, as you approach the century mark - a decade or two of days, don't make all that much difference . . .

Now, I really do feel oooold.

Back to Ericasl's Spring Chickens: there are other pages on "time & date" where you can learn such useless things as that they will be celebrating 4000 hours of life sometime on Sunday, November 16, 2008.

When ya think 'bout it, chickens certainly come close to providing instant rewards. Well, maybe not as instant as fruit flies but you remember how Groucho Marx put it, "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

With this thought in mind, I finished my breakfast banana and toast and went out to change the water in the coop. The pullet who started laying first - bit me!

Steve

 

[Ericasl]

HAHAAHA Well see what I get for trying to do math in my head...

Well I am glad I was wrong, it makes me feel better.