Re: Wind Egg

fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (nuele mersch) composed these thoughts and posted
themnews:1h8cf91.1i1noof1w4ix8eN%fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> 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)
I'm feeling very fortunate. Out of 13 hens laying, I'm getting 11-12 eggs
a day. When it dipped below zero, I got 9 eggs. I'm assuming they were
using their energy staying warm.
Been busy with other things, and haven't spent the doting time on
chickens that I usually do.
http://www.ezsg.com/~diddy@xxxxxxxx/torin/babywatch.html
been a hard last couple of days
>
>

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