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eggs at last
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:24 pm
by red
from the buff leghorn - given that they are white. quite clever of her to lay two on her first day dontcha thinK?
well one must have been from yesterday and we heard her crow of triumph when she lay the second one., and her perferred time is after feeding and checking time...
we had scrambled eggs for lunch.. yum!
wonder if this will encourage the other 3....
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:17 am
by Millymollymandy
fresh eggs
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:54 am
by mauzi
Nothing like fresh eggs. Congratulations.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:27 am
by Thurston Garden
It's odd I think. My parents got their first eggs last week too. I thought the chances of getting eggs from hens coming into point of lay at this time of year was very slim due the short day length. Proved wrong on two accounts though M&D and Red!
That said, I am getting about 5 eggs a day from my 30 hens. I expected them to pack up for the winter with just the occasional egg making an appearance. Roll on March, that's what I say!
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:50 pm
by red
Thurston Garden wrote:It's odd I think. My parents got their first eggs last week too. I thought the chances of getting eggs from hens coming into point of lay at this time of year was very slim due the short day length. Proved wrong on two accounts though M&D and Red!
sposed to be a way of ensuring you have eggs in winter is to time some POL to come into lay just as winter starts.. guess their timing overrides daylight stuff.. course.. only one of my 4 are doing that... another egg today... one egg a day should keep us ticking over nicely.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:47 am
by Millymollymandy
My 3 old girls were POL in April and carried on laying every day all through their first winter.
My latest POL (in April) has been moulting and hasn't laid since October!
eggs for winter
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:54 pm
by mauzi
It may be different here but we had the funniest experience with eggs over winter. I bought some Indian runner ducks (actually they are crossed somewhere along the line) to train a working dog with (instead of sheep and the by product was that they layed all winter - in fact they laid an egg a day (every one of them) for 4 months before going clucky and sitting. They didn't miss a day. I was so impressed that we have bred some more on for this purpose and we will see how they go next winter. The chickens did lay through our winter - less - but we had so many eggs we were pickling them as well as giving some excess to the pigs.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:12 am
by Shirley
No eggs at all here - despite the fact that some ought to be at pol now. I wish they'd hurry up and do something!
