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chez

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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 5:29 pm Post subject: First pullet eggs!
We got our first pullet eggs this week! VERY excited, almost as proud as if I'd laid them myself, except of course that would be weird .

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 5:33 pm Post subject:
Well done to your girls

Suzie

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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 5:34 pm Post subject:
But are you as sad as me? I blew my first egg and I've got it in a special egg cup

chez

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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 5:44 pm Post subject:
Perhaps, Suzie, but in a different way - I went and presented it to our lovely next door neighbour who has been brilliant about the cockerel noise from death-row at the back of our house.

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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 5:48 pm Post subject:

Suzie wrote:

But are you as sad as me? I blew my first egg and I've got it in a special egg cup

Same here.

Well done Chez, or rather your hens. Nice and early, were you expecting them this early?

chez

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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 6:00 pm Post subject:
Well, they're twenty weeks old, so it's about time I suppose. But it's been so cold and wet that I wouldn't have been surprised if they were a bit slow getting going. Ironically it appears to be Mary and Sandra, the Barnvelders who we have named after our adoption social workers, who appear to be laying .

judith

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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 6:04 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

it appears to be Mary and Sandra, the Barnvelders who we have named after our adoption social workers, who appear to be laying

That sounds like a very good omen to me

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 12:20 am Post subject:
Hi Chez, I got a couple of cream legbars from you a couple of months back!...just thought I'd let you know they are doing great, not laying yet, although one is very red round the wattles so any time now. I'm looking forward to blue eggs, will send you a pic as they've gown quite a bit. Hows your CL that had the stroke?

monkey1973

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 12:31 am Post subject:
I am desperate for eggs now. Ever since I got my hens I have stopped buying shop eggs but the last six weeks or so have been murder..........I haven't had a dcent breakfast in ages. I can't wait 'til they start laying again. p.s. I need to do a search of my old posts to see when they started laying again last year. I bet I'll have posted it on here somewhere.

monkey1973

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 12:36 am Post subject:
It appears I started getting eggs again January 15th. Two days to go!!!!!...................fingers crossed guys.

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 12:39 am Post subject:
oooh yes..we had a bit of an egg drought for a few weeks, but getting 4-5 a day now, hope they come soon Monkey, you can't beat'em

monkey1973

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 12:41 am Post subject:

pookie wrote:

you can't beat'em

I know

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 7:15 am Post subject:

pookie wrote:

I got a couple of cream legbars from you a couple of months back!...just thought I'd let you know they are doing great, not laying yet, although one is very red round the wattles so any time now. I'm looking forward to blue eggs, will send you a pic as they've gown quite a bit. Hows your CL that had the stroke?

I thought it was you - but I've got very confused about everybody's user names and real names. I was going to ask you how they were getting on, but didn't in case I'd got muddled and you thought I was mad

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Exploding Chicken unfortunately had another epidsode just before Christmas and didn't make it. She never really got better properly I don't think1 - her sister is doing fine, and like yours is getting very red in the wattle area, with nice yellow legs and is very busy doing Chicken Things and thinking about laying. EP though never really recovered and caught her up - her legs stayed very pale and although she was happy pottering round in the garden, she stayed very thin. She lived in the kitchen for a week or so as we tried to feed her up a bit and she was very helpful picking up all the bits on the floor so I didn't have to sweep it; but she had another stroke one evening and went very quickly.

I am very excited about the prospect of blue eggs ... do let me know how yours are getting on!

CP

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 07 11:40 am Post subject: Re: First pullet eggs!

Chez wrote:

We got our first pullet eggs this week!

Hooray, the best feeling isn't it

VERY excited, almost as proud as if I'd laid them myself, except of course that would be weird

Yes ist would!!!

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 07 11:32 am Post subject:

that's a shame Chez, poor chicken

The CL's are the most tame of all my chickens as we have only ever bought in POL birds and had some hatched ourselves from a broody (and boy did she get upset if you picked any up) so it was a bit of a 'hands-off' experience! So it's really nice that they come to you to be picked up!
Got an incubator for xmas, so hopefully a few chicks on the horizon! Am sitting on my hands at the mo trying not to start some eggs off till the weather gets warmer.

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