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35 week old undeveloped hen?

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Hello all,

 

I got 2 17 week old columbines last august (now approx 35 weeks old), 1 hen developed and laid within weeks sadly the second, although has a very red face has no comb and is yet to lay or even crouch.

 

previous to this I had a columbine which I lost due to becoming egg bound.

 

Do I just need to be patient or could there be something wrong? is this a common 'columbine' problem?

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I remember posting about the same sort of problem with my Amber hen, she looked much smaller than the others and had no headgear

 

I was reassured that all was ok

 

Of course all of a sudden she came to maturity some three months behind the others :lol:

 

Your little hen will get there :D

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Hello all,

 

I got 2 17 week old columbines last august (now approx 35 weeks old), 1 hen developed and laid within weeks sadly the second, although has a very red face has no comb and is yet to lay or even crouch.

 

previous to this I had a columbine which I lost due to becoming egg bound.

 

Do I just need to be patient or could there be something wrong? is this a common 'columbine' problem?

Hi Puddleduck, I was in the same situation with my Black Rock - until last week that is. She started crouching on Thursday and her little comb has grown in the past few days and is a definite shade of red rather than a pathtic pink, her wattles have gone into overdrive too.

 

One sign that 'things' may be happening is that your girl may start to pack on the pounds - Joy has really bulked up since early December.

 

Fingers crossed for you - and that the last of my 3 starts to lay this week.

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Posh Marjorie ( as in too posh to push ) :lol::lol:

Has never laid and she is now almost a year old, keeping fingers crossed for next year,

sweet little violet laid her first egg on 23rd Dec, so a nice Christmas pressy for us.

Hopefully back to work tomorow after being off work with broken wrist for 4 weeks, will miss you all, will try and sneak a look when pretending to work.

 

(pink eglu) + WIR

GNR Lavender

GNR Mable

(white chicken) Posh Marjorie

GNR Violet !eggblue!

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some of you may remember Gene as ive posted about her before, one of my 1st 3 birds arrived on 7th July 09, at supposedly 7 months old, so now 56 weeks and still nothing,

her comp and wattles have grown since we got her but they are not very big yet, although sometimes they are really red,

 

this is her when we 1st got her

 

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and this is her about 5/6 weeks later.

 

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her comb & wattles are now about 1/2" in size, still do not know what breed she is and funnily enough i actually met the guy who supplied her to the store where i got her from, he was sure she was a pure breed cochin ? but no feathers on legs and she has a crest.

 

anyhow i'm hoping she may strt laying Feb / March :pray:

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DEFIANTLY not a pure breed Cochin! Looks to me like a big breed of hen (orp/cochin/australorp etc.) cross with a legbar or an araucana. You may be lucky and get blue or green eggs if the father had the blue egg gene (e.g. Legbar or Araucana).

 

 

im due back at this guys on Monday, i will ask him if he can remember what colour the egg was,

 

do hybrids lay eggs the same colour as they came from :think:

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It depends,

 

The colour of the egg is passed on from the father.

 

If she was hatched from a blue or green egg this means her mother was a blue egg layer which means her father was a large breed. This means she would lay a cream/tinted egg.

 

If she was hatched from a cream/tinted/brown egg this means her mother was a large breed and her father was a blue egg laying breed. This means she would lay a blue/green/pastel egg.

 

Do you see what I mean??

 

:D

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It depends,

 

The colour of the egg is passed on from the father.

 

If she was hatched from a blue or green egg this means her mother was a blue egg layer which means her father was a large breed. This means she would lay a cream/tinted egg.

 

If she was hatched from a cream/tinted/brown egg this means her mother was a large breed and her father was a blue egg laying breed. This means she would lay a blue/green/pastel egg.

 

Do you see what I mean??

 

:D

 

 

ah i see now :liar:

 

no, sorry, it sort of makes sense, think ill just wait and see, at the moment any colourd egg would do :D

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