Chicken laying eggs from perch

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Re: Chicken laying eggs from perch

Post by Killerbunny » Wed Oct 04, 2017 2:06 pm

Fairsing Farms has online video of AI, I kid you not
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Re: Chicken laying eggs from perch

Post by windwalkingwolf » Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:33 pm

Hahaha @Jaye I could collect some for you, but I have no idea how long chicken sperm will keep outside of a chicken lol! If you like, I can take pictures of some potential suitors for when she's back in lay next Spring :D
@Happy , the occasional soft-shelled egg off the perch is completely normal, especially for good layers with a short laying cycle. If her cycle is less than 26 hours, she's just firing them through too fast to lay down shell. Most hens really have no idea that there's an impending egg until there's shell on it, so they just poop it out wherever.
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Re: Chicken laying eggs from perch

Post by Happy » Wed Oct 04, 2017 5:30 pm

They are never soft shelled-always healthy eggs. Just poopty lol.
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Re: Chicken laying eggs from perch

Post by windwalkingwolf » Wed Oct 04, 2017 11:27 pm

Whoops, I think I ran yours and Jaye's posts together in my brain ;)
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