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jaws

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New layers
« on: March 22, 2009, 08:51 »
I have got a couple of young hens - I'm new to chicken keeping.
One is brown with white tips to the feathers and the other white with brown spotty wings - I was told they are Gold line and Amber (I don't know which is which)
I have just had my first egg. It is brown speckled. I don't know which hen layed it - can anyone help. The white hen looks more mature - bigger comb and wattle. - I suspect it is hers.
Also the egg (+ number 2) is being layed on the roosing area - not in the nesting area - how do I encourage the egg to be layed in the nest boxes?
Thanks for all your support
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Re: New layers
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2009, 09:21 »
Put a china egg in the nest box, Jaws.  Leave it there for all time if you want.
The hen with the reddest comb and wattle is the likely layer, but cannot help with who is who or which lays which, sorry.  Still trying to work out my own lot on that score; though I am getting there!
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Re: New layers
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2009, 09:47 »
The Amber is the white one, basically she is a cross between a light sussex cockerel and a rhode island red hen and the Goldline is the brown one and she is the opposite cross rhode island red cockerel and light sussex hen.  They take their colouring from the cockerel.

At the moment we have 250 4 days old Amberlinks and 230 Goldlines in the brooder shed!!

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Re: New layers
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2009, 16:19 »
Grannie Annie,
 
Does that mean you have lost 20 of the chicks from the 500?

Your info on breeding is interesting.  Thank you.

I hope to post some pics of my girls in order to learn a little more of their parentage - they are hybrids, but definite clues to an expert, I'm sure.

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Re: New layers
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2009, 16:42 »
480, Grannie Annie - Wow - makes my two seem small fry.
I worry about them too much. I have spent a lovely day in the garden with them and they are starting to allow me to stroke and pick them up more. I have been finding them grubs in the old flower pots, making them a sand bath and they have tried to peck off my buttons and shoe laces - I did not get as much gardening done as I should!!!!

Thanks for the suggestion of the china egg Cathangirl I know you are not supposed to leave a real egg in

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Re: New layers
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2009, 17:50 »
it'll be the amber - we've got a silverlink which is very similar and she lays brown speckled eggs.
(and the comb and wattles thing too)



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