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Well poop ... no visible veins on any of the duck eggs. One has the red ring of death.
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Flowerbh said:
So, did any of you experience a lack of egg laying this week? (due to the weather, I assume)    I had been getting 12-15 eggs a day, and now am only getting 8 or nine and some of those are from new pullets! I don't understand when a hen will lay for about 2 weeks and then not again for weeks.  What is all that about?  Can a chicken deliberately not lay eggs because they are mad?  We put up a fence to keep their free ranging limited to the back woods.  Since then, almost no eggs!  Is it because of the weather or are they on strike?
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Yes, I have. Brownie, Cookie, and Karmel are all in the "f*ck you, it's too cold" stage. It doesn't help that I have lost two hens from that pen lately.

Plus I lost my oldest frizzle hen, and the one Sumatra went broody. I was collecting about 12-18 eggs every day. Today with the rain adding to the Chaos, I got TWO.
 
Hey, guys! As of today, I have 12 guineas, 10 Barred Rocks, and 6 buff silkies all in brooders. My mom called this morning and said her landlord gave her 30 days to get rid of all her chickens, so she brought over a BUNCH of chicks, SLWs, RIRs, and silkies. Sunday we have to pick up the rest, Comets, more silkies, a beautiful pair of blue Cochins I gave her, and more. And mid-May I am expecting a box with 12 Javas, 12 buff Cochins, and 5 Russian Orloffs. We had 70 birds BEFORE my mom came with her babies. I think I may have a problem...
 
ChickDancer said:
I heard I may have coop room for silkies, blue cochins and slw's....

I'm just sayin' haha!
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I may totally regret telling her I could take them all in the end, but I couldn't say no! She loves those chickens like they are my brothers and sisters, and who can say no to siblings? :lol: I thought chicken math was something you had to actively participate in, but I was proven wrong!
 
ChickDancer said:
The egg song is also a song they sing when there is danger around. So if they see a hawk, dog, raccoon, fox, etc., they will sing it. Sometimes I will have a hen or roo sing it because I startle them with a loud noise or something falling near them. So when a rooster does it, it's because he senses danger - OR because a hen does it and he sings along just in case.


As for getting him to step up to the plate... toss another rooster in there for a bit (a younger one) or maybe a new hen or two. Roosters will usually start to step up when he needs to assert his dominance over the flock. And that means either putting a new hen in her place, or fighting for top spot with a new rooster. If neither of those options are available, take one of his hens out for a while (a couple of weeks or so) and then put her back in. He'll think of her as a new hen, try putting her in her place, and that will probably mean mating with her.
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. I truly don't think this bird has a dominant bone in his body. I do have a younger roo I can pop in his pen and see what happens. As for the egg song this guy will just sit in the corner of his pen and sing...he's really weird...and his girls aren't laying right now so he's not singing with them. Thanks for the info though. I'll watch him closer and see if I can tell what sets off his singing.


farmerChef said:
separate him for a few days, he should be eager to get back to his job of fertilizing. I think that would be easier than doing the same thing with a hen, the hens would have all have to reestablish their pecking order
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He's only been with these girls for a couple of weeks. Before that he was in a quarantine pen for a month because he's new to my place. The previous owner thought he was a hen until he started crowing and couldn't keep him. The two girls in the pen are completely new to him and younger but he's never attempted to fertilize.


GAMarans said:
Robosilkie?
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. Ha!!
 

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