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Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 9:22 am Post subject: Eggs
I have such clever chickens... the old dears have started laying again and I have had 3 eggs from Roadrunner (our turkey).

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 11:15 am Post subject:
My new pullets are just starting up. Hurrah for (nearly) spring.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 12:03 pm Post subject:
Always so satisfying.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 2:36 pm Post subject:
My two setts of geese have both made nests, I don't think it will be long before they lay. My older hens and pullets are laying but after being kept in for a couple of months, the yolks have gone very pale.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43961
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 4:47 pm Post subject:
with them being in are they getting an increasing day length from either windows or keeping the lights on a bit longer each day? i'm curious about how much difference lighting makes to the timing of the spring lay (and thinking whether the winter egg strike could be avoided entirely with a small domestic flock)

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 4:47 pm Post subject:
My geese have laid their first egg of the season today and its a whopper too. �:chufted: That's pretty early I reckon.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 17 8:05 pm Post subject:
Very early. When we had geese, they normally only started laying mid to late Feb.

Woodburner

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 2904
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 17 4:15 am Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

My two setts of geese have both made nests, I don't think it will be long before they lay.
My older hens and pullets are laying but after being kept in for a couple of months, the yolks have gone very pale.

If you feed them mash, try mixing in some chopped alfalfa. (No point with pellets or grain, it just goes to the bottom and gets left.)

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 17 7:47 pm Post subject:
Sod that, the eggs taste just the same.

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