Winter egg laying

[FortCluck]

NONE of my April hatched pullets made it to laying this year. And I’m in SE TX, we get tons of light!



Maybe they’ll at least be bigger eggs right away?

I’m hatching next week for my new layers this year, that’s GOT to be enough time.


To the OP, I keep a mix of ages. I don’t supplement light, I just supplement more chicks!

also, this year, I started freezing the eggs scrambled up in ice trays and it’s pretty incredible. I’ve got my overall numbers working where I don’t really need frozen eggs, but it’s nice to have I guess and would have been wonderful when I just had 6 or 8 layers.

All of my April chicks started laying at about 20 weeks except for the one that I call pants. She is a black cochin. I'm not even sure if she started laying yet, but I have three chickens that lay pink colored eggs so I'm assuming one of them is hers because my Polish hasn't started laying.

 

[FortCluck]

Hello everyone my Speckled Sussex hen is 8 months old.. she hasn’t laid a egg now for 9 days but all my other hens Barred Rock, White Leghorn and Rhode Island Red is still laying eggs with the shorter days they all are 8 months old... And I don’t put any lightening in their coop.. Thanks Cynthia

Barred rocks are good layers, I have one, her name is Ophelia and she has laid an egg pretty much every single day since June.

 

[Cwestlake]

Barred rocks are good layers, I have one, her name is Ophelia and she has laid an egg pretty much every single day since June.[/QUOTE Yes very good layers I’m new to raising chickens all 4 are great hens and they are molting some since about 2 weeks now off and on... I figure when the Speckled Sussex is ready to lay again she will, she laid a egg everyday and now no egg from her for 9 days...

 

[FortCluck]

I was looking into getting a speckled Sussex. We were going to hatch a bunch of different breeds in a couple of months and that was one of the ones that I chose.

 

[FortCluck]

NONE of my April hatched pullets made it to laying this year. And I’m in SE TX, we get tons of light!



Maybe they’ll at least be bigger eggs right away?

I’m hatching next week for my new layers this year, that’s GOT to be enough time.


To the OP, I keep a mix of ages. I don’t supplement light, I just supplement more chicks!

also, this year, I started freezing the eggs scrambled up in ice trays and it’s pretty incredible. I’ve got my overall numbers working where I don’t really need frozen eggs, but it’s nice to have I guess and would have been wonderful when I just had 6 or 8 layers.

And can you explain how you do those frozen eggs? I would like to try it sometime. It sounds like it'd be a really good idea for my family. Plus we have about four dozen in the fridge I don't eat eggs, The only person who does that lives here are the dogs and my husband. Kids like pancakes with sausage.

 

[aart]

NONE of my April hatched pullets made it to laying this year. And I’m in SE TX, we get tons of light!

Sorry, but Thanks... I feel better now

I'm up to my eyeballs with eggs from the newbies

10 more days folks and the days will get start getting longer again. Thank goodness!

Midnight Majestic Marans. A cross breed by a hatchery (I forget which).

So how do their eggs look color wise? Wonders what the cross is....I figured just some weird marketing ploy, the latest 'designer breed'.

 

[Cwestlake]

I was looking into getting a speckled Sussex. We were going to hatch a bunch of different breeds in a couple of months and that was one of the ones that I chose.

My Speckled Sussex is a great hen you will love them, very vocal hen and very sweet great to be around.. All of my hens are very sweet...

 

[Cwestlake]

My Speckled Sussex is a great hen you will love them, very vocal hen and very sweet great to be around.. All of my hens are very sweet...

All of my hens will be 1 year old March 25th started laying at 3 1/2 months old very good layers until the days got shorter and winter

 

[Kluk-Kluk]

I don't eat eggs

When I have too many eggs, I start baking. Everyone in the family likes sweets. To use up eggs, I bake a European walnut torte with chocolate and coffee icings; one cake uses 28 eggs. Bake a couple of those, and you're down a few dozen eggs in no time.

 

[FortCluck]

When I have too many eggs, I start baking. Everyone in the family likes sweets. To use up eggs, I bake a European walnut torte with chocolate and coffee icings; one cake uses 28 eggs. Bake a couple of those, and you're down a few dozen eggs in no time.

I usually give our extra eggs to the dogs