First Egg Dance

[mikedero]

Well I finally got my first Egg, Chicks Born on 4/12/2012. I have 8 2 red sex and 6 Cornish rocks which when sold to me I was told they where leg horns.

here are a few pics of my small flock.

[mikedero]

I tried adding more pics but they did not show up

[wolverine]

You got a better meat chicken that will still produce enough eggs for you !

[mikedero]

the issue is the wife has named them and will refuse to eat them. And consider them pets so maybe next year I will cull a few of the white ones to make room for new Rhode Island reds

[TRAPnHUNT]

Aug 17, 2012 11:39:30 GMT -5 mikedero said:

the issue is the wife has named them and will refuse to eat them. And consider them pets so maybe next year I will cull a few of the white ones to make room for new Rhode Island reds

She gives them names and you could give them numbers. This way you can tell here that you are eating #5!

Good luck with them yard birds!

[Admin]

WTG Man ;D
I got 12 red sexlinks from Tractor Supply this spring and they dropped the first egg on 4th of July. It was a puny egg but a double yoker.

The girls are putting out steady now and both yesterday and today I picked 11 eggs. Eleven out of 12 hens. I think they're shooting for a perfect score. ;D

[mikedero]

the 2 red sex links will produce like that not sure what the cornish rocks will produce. If not enough then they will become BBQ in the spring as I do not want to keep just 2 birds but I might cull 2-3 of them to lower the cost of feed if they do not produce

[Admin]

I just looked at my receipt and I bought my chicks April 4th and they were approx 5 days old when I got them so mine are just ahead of yours.

I could hear one cackling earlier so I may have another egg out there. I have one hen that lays late in the afternoon and one that lays on the window sill.

[mikedero]

OK so yours are all of 10-12 days older and I got my first egg yesterday LOL what are you feeding yours LOL

[Admin]

When I picked these chicks up from TSC, they told me they were a cross from a Rhode Island Red rooster and could be either a Buff Orpington hen or a Hampshire Red hen. Whatever they are they sure do pump out the eggs.
I haven't gotten less than 10 eggs each day for several weeks now, with most days 11 and many days of 12. A lot more than I was expecting.

[ninedeer]

soooo are you eating alot of eggs JC? I have 25 hens and I avg 20 eggs a day.about a month ago the wife wanted to put some eggs in the incubator to see what would hatch.I put 19 in the incubator and 21 days later 17 hatched Told Dawn now what?guess we will wait and see how many are hens.will probably be culling out some older hens.