Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: timtheenchanteruk on June 05, 2011, 09:47
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Sooo exited this morning, just had to share, went down to let my ladies out, and there were 2 (albeit very small) speckled eggs.
Im happy, seems my worrying that I was doing it right is all for nothing, and they happy, infact ginger (gold star) will come and sit next to me or my kids in the garden for a stroke, not got quite that far with the other 2 yet.
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congratulations :D its eggciting isnt it
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It's so exciting when you get your first eggs, well done girls and you too :)
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Congratulations, now how do you plan to cook them? :)
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Congratulations!!! "Happy Chicken Dance"
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Congratulations, now how do you plan to cook them? :)
not decided yet, just keep looking at them...
possibly poached (the proper way in a pan of water, not one of those egg poaching things)
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Lovely, best was to est an egg poached! Congratulations and may they be the first of many eggs :D
Pamela
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Congratulaions :D ......we are still looking out for our first egg and we literally cannot wait. I think I will be calling my mum and telling her she has become a granny!!!!
Hope its the first of many.
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boiled with toast soldiers :)
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my oh had our first egg fried and in a butty before it had a chance to cool down
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Hahaha that's lovely!!!! Congrats!! :-)
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Congratulations! I posted a picture of my first dozen or so eggs on facebook, and I was only getting one a day at the time! I don't think my non chicken - owning friends really understood the excitement, but I certainly do! BYW, they are Amazing poached. Think I'll have that for lunch too, with some wholemeal toast.
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Hi
I'm new here and new to chicken keeping. We brought our 3 girls home on Saturday 4th June at about 10.00. One light sussex, one marran and one hybrid. We had fun and games when the sussex decided to do a runner as soon as we let her out but once caught and all secured they settled very quickly.
I went down to the hen house Saturday afternoon at about 3.30 in order to wind my partner up by declaring an egg but the joke (or should that be yolk) was on me because there was indeed an egg in the nest box, I thought he'd put it there for a laugh but it was a white one and I knew the last of our few shop bought were all brown. We think Bab's the Sussex layed it.
On Sunday we got 2 more, brown ones this time, one large and one quite small so we think that was one from each of the other two - they shop had told us the hybrid (Ginger) was only just laying so her eggs were small.
Yesterday we had another lovely white one - I can't wait to get home today and see if there's a pattern developing.
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I'm so jealous! Have had mine two weeks and no eggs yet - tho for several reasons I now suspect they are slightly younger than we told when we got them!
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Im loving it, just collecting egg based recepies, Ive just got the one laying so far (maybe itll spurr the other 2 one) but so far a regular 2 eggs a day, they started out quite small, but todays 2 have been a "normal" size.
Ive saved yesterdays, so its scrambled for tea today!!
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Im loving it, just collecting egg based recepies, Ive just got the one laying so far (maybe itll spurr the other 2 one) but so far a regular 2 eggs a day, they started out quite small, but todays 2 have been a "normal" size.
Ive saved yesterdays, so its scrambled for tea today!!
I didn't know a hen can lay more than one a day - can they? if so do they lay two at once or is there a time lapse. I'm just wondering if the 2 we had on Sunday could have come from one hen then?
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a couple of hours in between, I go down about 8:00, and the first one is there, and still warm, the next arrives somewhere around 11:00, Im pretty sure its the same chuck, they are almost identical in colour etc, and, from what the breeder said when I got them, the gold star would start to lay first, and would lay the most, the black star and bluebell a week or 2 after.
Ive had them 3 weeks, they are now all 21 weeks.
From what I can gather (please feel free to correct if its wrong) that younger birds can lay 2-3 eggs a day until they settle down into "normal" production.
Id be quite happy with one a day from each my ladies, it would give an egg based meal every other day for my lot.
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a couple of hours in between, I go down about 8:00, and the first one is there, and still warm, the next arrives somewhere around 11:00, Im pretty sure its the same chuck, they are almost identical in colour etc, and, from what the breeder said when I got them, the gold star would start to lay first, and would lay the most, the black star and bluebell a week or 2 after.
Ive had them 3 weeks, they are now all 21 weeks.
From what I can gather (please feel free to correct if its wrong) that younger birds can lay 2-3 eggs a day until they settle down into "normal" production.
Id be quite happy with one a day from each my ladies, it would give an egg based meal every other day for my lot.
Well I'm puzzled now then maybe my young hybrid is laying two and the Marran isn't laying at all? We know the Sussex is laying a white egg every other day but then alternate days there have been two brown eggs close together - one normal size and one small
I shall have to keep my eyes open as to who goes in when
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we have 4 hens , 2 have started laying but the other two are still thinking about it .. its the best part of my day going out to the coop to see if there is anything in the nest box , me and the wife were giddy last week when our first egg appeared .. so far we have had 7 .. since last friday .. and they taste lovely
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And congrats on your first eggs by the way ...
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if the eggs are only a few hours apart its 2 different hens
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yay, my bluebell (Tallulah) has started laying today, 3 eggs...(in total)
couldnt get in to collect the eggs first thing, as she was sat there hogging the next box (there are 2, but one seems to be favoured right now...
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Babs - the sussex has decided she quite likes this egg laying lark so has started to lay daily rather than every other day.
She came out of the nest box this morning full of herself, rosey loudly as if to tell us how clever she was.
Maybe she was boasting to the other two
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Well, Congratulations to all you first time egg collectors! Our girls are only 17 weeks this weekend, so we're still waiting, but looking forward to the first one - whenever that will be! :)
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My Black Rock laid her first egg today (after a softee a few days ago), wow, it was a great feeling.
Not long to go now mummyhen61, it really will be worth the wait :nowink:
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My OH found our first eggs this morning - 3 of them! I'm a bit annoyed as I'm the one that sees to them three times a day and hes's been out to them maybe three times in total ever, yet he found the eggs!! I weighed them and two are 1.4 ounces and one is 1.2 ounces so when they lay properly it looks like we'll have good sized eggs!!
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HaHaHa Raven81, are you sure he didn't buy them??!! :D Don't mean to hijack this thread, but just quickly, hows your Rottie with your girls? We have a 4 year old and she is a complete nightmare!!
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My rottie is 9 and a bit of an old man - he completely ignores the hens, I seem to have odd animals that all ignore each other, one of the cats sleeps on top of the hamster cage and hasn't been hunting yet!
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mmmmmm, only another 4 years til we reach a dog/hen equilibrium :wacko:
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my neapolitan mastiff ignores our hens now (she used to give them a chase until she reached 3 - not to catch and kill but just to annoy me) and our 10 year old Newfoundland cross only chases them when they come into the house to nick her food :).
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i was worried about one of my cats who will bring home a bird now and again -little ones but once hes had a pigeon-and activly stalks evry day in the garden,so would allways keep a close eye out if the hens are out of the run and hes about ,then one day my bluebell was pecking away at the food in the g,pigs hutch when the cat jumped down of the wall next to her on his way in and she jumped in fright then so did the cat she looked at him and then beak down wings out charged at him like a mad hen it was so funny and he legged it inside and allways gives her a wide birth now :D
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well, all three of my girls are laying happily atm (touch wood)
next doors cat ventured into our garden earlier today, Ive seen it in before in an evening watching the chucks in the run, but not whislt they were out, so I watched, just incase, didn't need to worry, Ginger and Astrid say it off, must say it had a suprised look on its face!!!
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Im sure I speak for us all when I say that I still get a warm glowing feeling when I collect the eggs each morning, and especially so when your babies produce for the first time. You then watch those little tiny eggs get bigger and bigger as the days pass. It makes it all worth while!