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[Squish]

....are STILL not laying i think i may have unable chickens !

 

Ive had them for over 5 weeks now and their combs are slowly getting redder, but no signs of eggs, crouching etc. According to my dad if they don't lay by two months they're becoming a corma ...I don't think so!

 

Someone said about them laying around the garden but somehow i don't think thats whats happening.

 

EDIT: Just gone to put the chicks to bed and i found a beautiful brown speckled egg!! Ive never seem my family quite so exited!

 

Not quite sure who's it is, as Ginger has been crouching for about a week but i heard a load of clucking earlier and poked my head out of the window and could only see Ginger so it may have been Babs .

 

Just fried it and shared it around the family, the grandparents have even been rung to inform them

 

Such clever little cooks

Edited June 22, 2008 by Guest

[Egluntyne]

Just give them a little more time.

 

If the combs are reddening, they are certainly showing signs of maturing.

 

I had my initial girls for 6 weeks before the first egg appeared.

[Christian]

One of my original girls waited 3 months

[Squish]

One of my original girls waited 3 months

 

THREE?! Ohh they will definitely be a curry by then .

 

I just dont want to buy any more eggs from the supermarket, i suppose the only thing i can do is wait...as the eggy pep talks before bedtime have not been doing the trick!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

You think that's bad . I had to wait 11 weeks for 2 of mine to lay. The other one laid 10 tiny eggs a few weeks after she arrived, then waited 18 weeks to really get going .

 

Not that I'm trying to worry you or anything .

[Christian]

I think she was much younger than the other two Squish. She had no comb for the first 2 months.

[Squish]

Looks like i might still be in for a bit of a wait then! Ill be sure to inform you once they do lay...hopefully it will be before the 11th odd week of having them .

[munchkin]

Hi squish

 

Try not to panic, we've had our chucks since 12/4/08 and Barbara laid her 1st egg this week. It was a bit of a wait but well worth it. Babs is now catching up with Margot in terms of size and weight but my husband seems to think that Margot has got a better set of drumsticks

[Squish]

Just gone to put the chicks to bed and i found a beautiful brown speckled egg!! Ive never seem my family quite so exited!

 

Not quite sure who's it is, as Ginger has been crouching for about a week but i heard a load of clucking earlier and poked my head out of the window and could only see Ginger so it may have been Babs .

 

Just fried it and shared it around the family, the grandparents have even been rung to inform them

 

Such clever little cooks

[Chickvic]

Congrats on your first egg!

[Yolky]

That is great news

[Cooks]

congratulations

[Egluntyne]

Lovely news.

[Gallina]

That's good news.

 

It means your hens were on the young side when you got them. That is good news too: I find that the friendliest hens are those I had when they were still babies.