Re: Wind Egg

diddy <none> wrote:

> This wasn't a first egg though. I assumed sub zero temps
> stressed a chicken enough that they laid it.


I know. I had a hen, a black bantam Hamburgh, who used to lay such a
tiny little yolkless egg as her last for each summer, before she went
into moult. Sometimes her first egg in spring was a wind egg, too. None
of my other hens have ever done it, seems it's an individual thing.

3.5 inches of snow here now, but the hens are still laying, especially
the Sicilian pullets and the bantam Sulmtaler hens (without heating or
extra light in the coop). I'm very pleased! One of the Crower hens even
went broody two days before Christmas, but it wasn't too difficult to
convince her she'd better wait a couple of months ;-)

Nuele (D)

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