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eggtraordinary production!

Post by Skinny rooster » Thu Jul 13, 2017 10:28 pm

Today I got three eggs from my Easter egger bantams. Nothing exciting there except I only have TWO hens! They are really good little layers, its one of the reasons I sold the three Ameraucanas who only averaged two eggs a day and ate a heck of a lot more feed, plus they really started being aggressive towards the little ee's . I have all the eggs I need from those two tiny egg machines, the eggs are a nice size however. I thought I forgot to collect the egg from yesterday but it was sitting on the counter where I left it last night. I hatched lots of chicks off them, all colours came out.
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Re: eggtraordinary production!

Post by Happy » Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:06 am

I guess they haven't gone broody on you!
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Re: eggtraordinary production!

Post by Ontario Chick » Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:56 am

Nice production, must be the hybrid vigor ;)
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Re: eggtraordinary production!

Post by Skinny rooster » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:57 am

Happy wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:06 am
I guess they haven't gone broody on you!
Nope! They do sometimes make hidden nests when out but no sign of going broody. It's too late now anyway so I don't want them to. I collect the eggs as soon as I get home not to encourage it. Imagine if I infused some leghorn into them, to make the egg a little bigger but keep the green colour. Their feed conversion must be crazy, the eggs are a nice size but they hardly eat anything.

I have a Wyandott bantam and Buff Brahma bantam that hatched chicks out already, they are off the ee and Ameraucanas.
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Re: eggtraordinary production!

Post by Skinny rooster » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:59 am

Ontario Chick wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:56 am
Nice production, must be the hybrid vigor ;)
I think so as well, they and the chicks I hatched off them are much stronger and more clever than the other birds.
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