BarbaraJ Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Just wondering as its taken Ebony 2 hours yesterday and weds faffing around to lay lol is it just practise ? shes at about 2 hrs again today am just out to check again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surferdog Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'm very new to this so not qualified to give advice but....mine started laying last weekend. They have gone from spending a couple of hours in the nest box on Sunday to just popping in and out again today - two eggs in the nest box before I've even noticed they'd been in! Difficult to say how long it took them individually the first couple of days as they insisted in all going in the eglu together regardless of who was laying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAJ Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 my book says half an hour - to - two hours. Mine vary considerably - one (Rye) goes in and out a few times, then she sits in there for well over half an hour - the other two seem to be a few minutes, or before we have even been out to them in the morning. Tracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Cleopatra took about 25 minutes to lay her first egg this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcphail Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Ours don't seem to take very long at all 10-15 minutes...mind you the eggs still aren't very big...it might make a difference!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Mine take anything fro 2 minutes (Elsbeth) to an hour (Prudence) I think they take a magazine with them and catch up on the gossip. Congratulations on your first egg Snoxy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitandNutCake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I'm hoping not to be distracted today so I can sit and watch the nesting boxes - a) to be certain who laid the first egg yesterday and b) I can time them! I think mine just went in an out a few times, but Dinks did settle in the box for a while before laying her egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicki9 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 mine take anything from a couple of minutes - when they've been outside hopping from foot to foot waiting for the one in front - to a couple of hours - the one in front who gets prime position!! But they always bok bok loudly when they are done to show off!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Thank you for the congratulations Christian! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitandNutCake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Bonza is taking a long time this morning! She keeps going to nest box to have a scratch - then goes out in the garden. She is also spending an awfuly long time in the shrubs I'm hoping she doesn't lay in there as it could be very difficult for me to find the egg in there. I've already had one look - crawling on hands and knees, getting poked in the eye with twigs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Opal just laid her second egg today, we don't know how long it took yesterday as we weren't watching! Today she's been in and out a few times for an average of ten mins. When she finally laid she was in there for about half an hour. Congratulations Snoxy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitandNutCake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 I was watching Bonza since 7 this morning. Just looked in the shed and all 3 were laying down in Bonza's spot! I was wondering how I would tell who laid which egg - but 5 mins later I saw this: The egg is definitely under Bonza - was still a bit wet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 well i went out at 9.15 to check this morning and there was a lovely warm egg there so shes speeding up! Lol the size though, we started at 42g and after 5 days have progressed to 46g could be a while to get to average size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitandNutCake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 That's quick! Dinks has been in "her" box for half an hour now - it's funny how Bonza has to have the other two girls as bouncers, but they leave Dinks alone when she is laying hers! Is this a hierarchy thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Fifi went into the Eglu an hour ago...followed by Cleopatra...then the rain came down so Princess Leia is in there too...got a feeling we will have two eggs this morning...Cleo's 3rd and Fifi's 1st WATCH THIS SPACE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitandNutCake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 one hour and 15 mins in the nest box for Fair Dinkum to lay her egg! Nice big one too at 48g so I'm not surprised it too a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Fifi just laid her first egg...2 1/2 hours after first going into Eglu...worth waiting for though as it's huge compared with Cleopatra's...will take pics soon. She came out of the Eglu, stood tall and told the World what she had done very loudly Off to buy some digital scales now...just gotta weigh this bruiser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoxy Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Sure I've posted this somewhere else...but no matter...got back from Argos with digital scales (can't believe I am so eggcited about them)...Cleopatra's 1st 3 eggs weighed 37, 38 & 41gms...tiddlers...but Fifi's 1st egg weighed a respectable 58gms and looks huge compared to Cleopatras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...