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New to hens...Only had them 12 days and I was worried that when they started crouching, I would not recognise they were doing it!! This evening 2 crouched when I went to pick them up!! I know what crouching is now and know that my 1st egg is not too far away!! :D

 

After crouching started, how long did everyone have to wait till 1st egg??

 

I have 2 supermarket free range eggs left and vowed I will never buy another, so please give me some idea how long I should expext to wait!!

 

Thanks

 

Sarah

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Oooh how exciting, ours crouched then laid, very quickly . .think there was only Pandora who crouched for at least 3 days before laying. .they've all been one after the other.

 

Isnt crouching just so adorable, theyre so lovely.

 

 

Good Luck, hope its soon

 

 

Ms TilysavedanotherslowwormfromthePepperpots

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The last of my girls finally popped an egg out. A whopping 64g which is bigger than any of the others have managed even after a month.

 

She was sort of crouching for about a week. We thought she was copying the others but a bit half-heartedly. Then at the weekend she really crouched and five days later.... :D

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Two of mine were crouching since I got them on Sunday, but one more than the other.

So. 5 days later, I have my first attempt at an egg. Just found a squashed flat, soft shell, whilst cleaning out the sleeping quarters after letting them out.

 

It kind of looked a bit like a flat bit of plastic! So hopefully they should start getting better. I was told that they would just lay them anywhere to start with!

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My Margo crouched for a g e s ! Out of the 3 laying at the moment , she was the first to crouch, but the last to actually lay ! almost 2 weeks I think.

Pepper, I think, has decided to do it the other way around - I think she layed her first soft shelled egg yesterday, but hasn't crouched until today - when she did a little half crouch thing an hour ago ! :?

They obviously haven't read the books ! :)

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