look what my welsummer gave me yesterday!!! it is her second egg this winter and noone else is laying, rotfl. come on spring!!!!!
this is her egg next to a lrg store bought egg but that one looks closer to an xl to me,lol. hers is to big to be a medium. anyone else got eggie pics to share???
silkie, my auricanas started laying this week also. i'm so egcited!
got these from my girls this morning..cant complain about my comets..looks like we are in for another big storm Silkie..and they also said that Feb is gonna be the snowiest month of the winter..yipee..NOT!!
I hear you Silkie! COME ON SPRING!!! The egg is so dark. Its pretty!
Wow.. pretty egg Silkie.. show it to your Seramas.. make em jealous.. LOL
That's a great haul Cindy!
WOW!!! Cindy are all those eggs from comets? They are beauties and look like very large eggs! How many comets do you have? Mcmurray Hatchery call's them red stars but they are the same bird. I have thirty of them comming Feb ninth.
Silkie! Did I read your post correctly? Did it say store bought eggs??? Edadds!! SHssssh, don't say that to loud. That welsummer egg looks a lot like a cuckoo marans egg, very dark.
haystack are you saying that the darker brown eggs will be ros if hatch? i know if pointy they are ros
Yes Haystack, those are all from the comets..i have 16 girls, and i get about 16 a day..they are all large or xtra large eggs..they all came from MT Healthy in ohio..never got a bad bird from them..
lol, if the seramas and frizzled cohins where laying i'd know spring was here for sure. thanks everyone, i was so excited to see it!
yes it looks like a lighter marans egg. ones i've hatched have been way darker but these two wells eggs she laid r darker than my terra cotta pots so i know i got a good bloodline in them. i have a spring trade lined up with a few people to get a flock going this year and looking forward to it!
lol, yes i said store bought i have to buy them everyone here is on strike except the wells girl who once a week gives me one egg if i'm lucky sometimes longer, rotfl. i got 7 people to make breakfast for. i hate store bought eggs and love fresh we all do there is no compairison there but in winter we have to. in our experience neither darker or pointer tells sex it is the temperature range. i usually hatch mostly pullets but my customers hatch 50/50 to more roos,lol.
ur comets r beautiful they r one of the first breeds i started with when i got into poultry.
silkie if ya want eggs, you can get some of mine..they are only 1.25 a dz..the girls are laying like crazy..stop over if youre in the area..
I'm hatching like 75 to 90% Roos! What do you mean temp? Constant temp, temp outside, High temp, low temp?? Oh DO tell..
kool, thank u. i don't want to be hatching yet still way to cold out so come closer to spring i'll get ahold of u for some and i'll see if any of my chicken friends up this way r wanting any too before i come down. do u have eggs for any other breeds too?
zz, what we can tell from our own hatching over the years is if the bator temp is higher u get more roos if the temp is lower u get more girls. i do agree sometimes the pointy eggs r correct and r roos but most of the time we get 50/50 on that one.
Thank you! I totally believe it.. I don't know about the recent hatches yet, cause they are too little.. but the ones that hatched a day early were 5 roos out of 7 chicks and 3 out of 4.
Catscan sent me a link were I read somewhere that the pullets were more susceptible to temperature fluctuations than roos.. so I've been trying to watch that more... but it's near impossible with a Hova bator! I've got it stable now.. and my hatches are not early anymore.. so maby I'll get a few pullets for a change!
I haven't had any of the "bullet" shaped eggs develop..
no silkie, unfortuately the only ones i have now are the comets..no roos either, just good yummy eggs..but they lay such wonderful eggs, that i sure cant complain..send me a dmail or email and ill make sure i have them for you..thanks
u r welcome, i have sportsmans now so it stays steady in both but u r right when i had my 2 lg's and 2 hovas they always bounced and i had probs. i always had more roos hatch then. they can be a bugger to regulate.
lol, i miss read that hehe i got hatching withdrawls on the brain sorry. i see now u ment yummy farm fresh eggies for eating. i'll get ahold of u when the roads r better out and we r gonna be down that way again.
thanks,
silkie
cndydavis I also have comets and most lay every day,I have nine and I get between 6 and nine eggs everyday,I just love them they are so friendly am going to order more in spring.
I tell you, I love alabama. My girls have been laying all winter. The fewest eggs I have gotten in a day is 2 dozen. I am getting 4-5 dozen a day now. I love LA!!
That is great! I am lucky to get one! All my girls went broody.
Silkie you are really blonde: Even I knew cindy was speaking of eating eggs. You've got hatchitis, but oh do you keep me laughing. What would I do without U?
lol, u'll have to forgive me i've been out of it all day. i'm getting the winter blues here bad!!!
here r some pics of my brooder babies from my girls i took today. they r looking great for potential spring breeders!! i can't wait to see how their babies look when they get bigger and have them.
first one is a splash silkie, haha i startled her with the cam sounds and flash.
here is another pic of her. these r about 2-2.5 mths old now.
buff silkie after a nice cold drink.
i know these r not eggie pics but figured it'd get ya all excited about eggies and peeps waiting for spring to come,lol.
splash showgirl
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OH HOW BEAUTIFUL: I'm thinking how cute they would look peeking out of that new purse!! Sheer dynamite they are.Hay.
beilieve it or not this is actually a blue showgirl,lol can't tell with all that fluff though.
thank you, yes that would be adorable,lol.
this one is actually a blue silkie,lol.
and a white silkie too. hope u enjoy the pics!!! love to see what others have in the brooder too or what r u getting this year to add. love to hear what ya all r working on for spring.
my japanese bantams started laying yesterday. here is the egg next to a regular egg
I love that first pic where you scared her.. That is just too funny! I too would like to see them in your purse! You gotta get a purse that is smaller... how cute would that be? LOL
JKJ that is a pretty blue egg.. I love the tiny one too.. it's getting exciting that spring is so close..:)
Not a chicken, but this is one of my new projects.
She laid yesterday, lets just hope she keeps it up!!
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Well, that didn't work.....maybe this will.
welcome justin!!! yep it worked,lol. awesome pheasants!!!
OMG!! Pheasants I love Pheasants and they are so pretty are those Red Goldens?
OH and Welcome to Daves!!!!!
i believe they r yellow goldens if i remember right it has been awhile since i have seen one.
But ain't they just so purdy *sigh*
well my welsummer girl is laying almost everyday now,lol. it is suppost to be rainy all next week hopefully this cold weather will be gone soon.
hey just, what other kinds of pheasants u got?
oh yes harm,lol i'm drooling they r gorgous!!
I have a pair of red golden and a pair of reeves that I need to go pick-up.
yes, they are yellow golden......they are not quite a yr old yet, so they are still a little funny looking
Yellow Golden those are just beautiful do you have a pic of the Red Golden?
awesome!! can't wait to see pics of them!!!
