Why do I even bother carrying that egg basket

[Fiddlehead]

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Good tip, Thanks!

I was an eager beaver too bobbieschicks!

 

[bobbieschicks]

Well went out to hang up the basket and found an egg in the nest box! That's two days in a row. I guess I looked too early!

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

My chickens are 7 months and still not laying

 

[bobbieschicks]

The eggs I'm getting now are from my White Leghorn - she started laying a few days shy of her 19th week birthday. She laid a good hard shelled egg for 5 days in a row then started soft shelled and no eggs for awhile with the occassional good one. But now two days in a row she has laid a real good hard shelled egg!

 

[Linn Bee]

I carry my egg basket out each time because I can.

I wove the basket myself and I just love it. I do have a nail in the coop to hang it on when there are no eggs waiting for me, but the coop tends to get so dusty I don't leave it hang very long.

If I don't have the basket I do pockets. I can carry 6 eggs - one per pocket - if necessary, but I am afraid of scrambled pockets, too. As I age I see more evidence of the ADD I probably had as a child.

Love, Linn B (aka Smart Red) * * * Nesting with 5 Australorp and 5 Lt. Brahma hens plus 'The Count of Monte Cristo' - or Monte for short - one beautiful, well-behaved, hard-working, Australorp rooster, in south-est, central-est Wisconsin.

 

[bobbieschicks]

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Good point about dusty coop - I better go retrieve the basket. I'll carry it out and just hang it while I'm out there. That way I have a safe place to bring them (haha) back when I find them there.

 

[itsmechrissy]

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X2.... waiting for the day I forget to take one out of the pocket and make a big mess (surely I'll be in some inconvenient location

 

[bobbieschicks]

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Woven basket sounds nice - what did you make it out of?

 

[BlazeJester]

Sounds like you're expecting the early end for all your chicks... My BRs started laying at 20 weeks but I've heard people in cold climates here who have waited six or seven months before their pullets started laying.

 

[flowerlover]

Hello bobbiechicks,I am new to byc,and fairly new to keeping chickens,only since june.I noticed that you are from my neck of the woods,I am from Bowling Green