New egg record!!

Cheri · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: New egg record!!

9 eggs collected yesterday and Dottie laid her first egg!

mooney · Soft Boiled Egg Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 22

The most i've ever had is 3 in 1 day from 3 chickens! Is that any good?

judymae · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:19 am Post subject:

3 a day for 3 chickies is really good. They cannot lay more than one a day and they like to take a day off from time to time. My mallard duck will lay for 7-8 days straight and then not lay for 3 days or so.

mooney · Soft Boiled Egg Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 22

We dont have any layers at the moment as 1 is malting and 2 aren't old enough yet.

Cheri · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject:

Yesterday we got 7 and we are stalled at 7 right now. Maybe more later. Mooney I have 21 hens.

Birdhill

Okay, not bragging but I have 54 hens, usually get 42-46 daily but Sunday, I got 51, and I have two brooding so they are in isolation - maybe it because I went to church with the wife???

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Cheri · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject:

Just rub it in Birdhill, just rub it in. Can you go to hatching and babies and tell me how to know if a bird is broody??
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Birdhill · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: Broody Hens

It seems that all my white cochin hens have decided they want to be mothers.

A broody(setting) hen will stay on the nest day and night and hardly leave even to eat or drink. Also, they will pick the devil out of you if you try to take the eggs from the nest and if they do get off the nest they will cluck almost contineously. Needless to say, they stop laying themselves. So I put them in my isolation pen without any nest for a few days until they get over the desire for motherhood.

I will be hatching in the spring, don't tell my wife she think we are going back to Europe. Mine are all big breed, Buff and White Cochins, Buff Orphan*.*, Austrolops, Wyndots,Sex Links,etc. ( I failed spelling) I have a buff cochin roo that weights in at just over 12 lbs, but he will come and get in my lap if I set on the grass. His main purpose in life is to eat butterflies that comes to the plants that I planted to attract butterflies, guess I didn't plan that to well. Nothing beats pine straw and dust baths.

Cheri · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

My hubs and I were just talking about you. We may have to pay a visit and get us some eggs or chicks next spring. I have some that will stay in the nest until I come and get the eggs.
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Cheri · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject:

Well we did it. Broke the record. 10 eggs today.

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