Who else is waiting the impossible wait?

[TigerLilly]

Thank goodness I'm not the only stalker...ever since getting that first egg from Ethel, I've been sitting in the coop, in the corner, just waiting for her to get in the nest box & lay. She has this funny look on her face, with her beak open, as if to say, 'ummm....helloooo...little privacy plz!' I've been away from the coop for about an hour now; think it's too soon to go check?
Oh, & i also have 2 barred rock pullets that are about 16 wks or so. Waiting on them to start laying as well as another buff orp that is 'about' 6 mos old...

 

[write2caroline]

Me too Mine hatched 5/10 should start laying soon and the ones hatched 6/14 right behind them
Caroline

 

[sheaviance1]

I know you went back out there. Were you rewarded for all your stalking????

 

[Yay Chicks!]

So....now everyone's quiet...laying about and panting because it's so hot. No more singing, no more back and forth into the coop testing the nest box, and NO egg. I guess today was a practice run...OR, they were, like, "watch what I can make the human do. Here she comes again!"

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

My own chooks are only 15.5 weeks, so I am not too manic yet, but yesterday, I was helping feed a good friend's flock of 6 RIRs and 6 BOs (17.5 wks) and she found her first egg! I was as excited as if it had been my own.
It was a most respectable size of egg, for a first effort, I thought.
Any chance the RIRs and BOs lay eggs of a different enough color to tell them apart?
I also discovered her Roo, who has been walking among them all along! Once you see him, he sticks out like a sore thumb!
The first egg also came on the full moon. Is that common for the moon to affect laying? Any thoughts???

Brightest Blessings!

 

[sheaviance1]

Oh great, your chickens watch "Stupid Human Tricks" too huh, argh, I knew it was a conspiracy!!!

 

[wingznut76]

WooHoo, I have been waiting for my new pullets to start laying and today it has happened for sure. My two BR have just started laying again after all the heat and stress of adding some new girls, but today I had three eggs. Yesterday I had an egg that was about two thirds the size of what my two BR hens have been laying. Since it was the only egg of the day I held off the eggcitement. Well today I got three eggs, two large from the BR and one medium from a Golden Buff. It's on now. Now I just need to get the other seven GB's, the one BSL, the two Col. Wyandottes, the two Welsummers and the BA to lay now. I figure all should be laying by the end of Sept. Looking forward to a nice omelet this weekend. Three is the most for me in one day. I have eight total since Aug. 14th with six from the two BR.

randy

 

[sheaviance1]

You know what I hate.....I hate when I get off work and rush out to the chicken coop and someone has done stole my thunder

. I have 4 out of 13 laying now, and my little boy, bless his pea-picking-chicken-coop-stalking-egg-collecting little heart, has everyday this week gathered all the eggs and put them away for me.

I have been so excited about all of this, and he was too when we first bought the little fuzzy butts home. Lately, he doesn't even go out there to visit them like he used to, only to steal my thunder. I have begged him to just peek and leave them for me to find too, but noooooo, I get home and rush out there, and nothin'.

I shouldn't be feeling so selfish. I know that. But....there ya go. I'm sure the day is coming when it will be, argh, gotta go get the eggs, but right now it certainly isn't......what to do, what to do....maybe I should make him watch me play his x-box......

 

[pookiegoldman]

Tomorrow the girls turn 21 weeks. I'm starting to give up hope. Here's what I've got: 4 cochins, 3 polish, BO, Australorp, Lakenvelder, SS Hamburg, 2 Yokohamas, SP Phoenixes, White Rock, couple of Delawares, a few Golden Comets, Cherry Egger, 2 unidentified girls.

I know 21 weeks doesn't sound very long compared to others, but REALLY!! Shouldn't at least ONE of these hens be laying by now?

 

[cabot]

first two tiny eggs today!!!!