I'm starting to lose patience with my silver laced barnevelder group. We hatched them last spring on April 29th (from shipped eggs). I ended up with a nice group of three roosters, three hens. One rooster was lost to an aerial predator in the summer. We picked the nicest of the two roos to keep and re-homed the other guy. It was a tough choice as the other was very pretty, and the one we kept has some break-through brown in his saddle. But life is too short to keep mean roosters.
At any rate, here we are at nine months, and still not a single egg from these hens. Cream legbars and mosaics that I hatched more than a month later have been regular layers since December. The lengthening days have started about half of the rest of my flock laying at this point. I know I need to be patient, but geesh.
At any rate, here we are at nine months, and still not a single egg from these hens. Cream legbars and mosaics that I hatched more than a month later have been regular layers since December. The lengthening days have started about half of the rest of my flock laying at this point. I know I need to be patient, but geesh.
