It's October. We got our laying hens as day old chicks in mid April. That put them on schedule for laying around mid-late August.
Apparently someone forgot to tell the hens that.
Every morning, we would go out and look in the hen house. Maybe today will be the day ... and nothing. Days, then weeks went by and we still had not on single egg. Our friends' chickens were laying tons of eggs and they were the same age as ours. Did we get defective chickens??
I reasoned with them. I asked nicely. Then I started to tell them they had better start earning their keep as I was feeding them every morning. Still nothing.
Then, after a long weekend away, we went out this morning to feed the birds, and I was going through my mantra of "Why are you not laying yet? you ladies need to start earning your keep", when lo and behold, in the back of one of the nest boxes, what should I spy?
Yay! Our first little eggs!!
So small, they both fit in the palm of my hand.
Of course, now this begs the question: Did two of our hens finally decide to start laying? Or did the 2 guinea hens that are 2 months younger than the chickens and due to start laying later this month start laying early? Hmmm .....
Apparently someone forgot to tell the hens that.
Every morning, we would go out and look in the hen house. Maybe today will be the day ... and nothing. Days, then weeks went by and we still had not on single egg. Our friends' chickens were laying tons of eggs and they were the same age as ours. Did we get defective chickens??
I reasoned with them. I asked nicely. Then I started to tell them they had better start earning their keep as I was feeding them every morning. Still nothing.
Then, after a long weekend away, we went out this morning to feed the birds, and I was going through my mantra of "Why are you not laying yet? you ladies need to start earning your keep", when lo and behold, in the back of one of the nest boxes, what should I spy?
Yay! Our first little eggs!!
So small, they both fit in the palm of my hand.
Of course, now this begs the question: Did two of our hens finally decide to start laying? Or did the 2 guinea hens that are 2 months younger than the chickens and due to start laying later this month start laying early? Hmmm .....
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