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    First egg from girls!

    we got a small egg today from our girls! We added two cuckoo marans and 2 light sussex to the 6 rangers we got last week (bit of scrapping, but ok now). I think it was laid by one of the sussex, as she has been acting different to the others, closing eyes etc. I saw on a posting this is often prelude to the first egg..... and she is acting normally now! This forum is really useful and reassuring! Anyway, its very exciting!
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    lol congrats to your girls ....long may they continue to lay! How are you going to cook it? Soft boiled with soldiers?
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      If you stroke their backs and they crouch you know which one is laying. The crouching instinct is to mate it will tell you which one layed

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        Originally posted by NSB View Post
        If you stroke their backs and they crouch you know which one is laying. The crouching instinct is to mate it will tell you which one layed
        Oh, right! Yes, there is one that does that......that may have shattered my other theory!
        "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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        • #5
          Maybe I should have put, its very eggciting!!

          i thought I might make a very small omlette!!
          Last edited by Emmylou; 22-04-2009, 08:01 PM.
          "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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            Originally posted by NSB View Post
            If you stroke their backs and they crouch you know which one is laying. The crouching instinct is to mate it will tell you which one layed
            All three of mine do that now but only one egg yet! Does that mean maybe tomorrow.... three eggs!
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              Your sussex look a bit young to start laying yet, mine came into lay at about 26 weeks and I normally only get 2 sussex eggs from the 3 sussex girls each day but the other make up for it.

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                You never know lettucegrow!! Although what I will say...leaning down and crouching are two different things...the crouch is a unique thing, they crouch down and pop their wings back slightly....for the cockerel to tread them. Also super handy for catching them!!

                Well cone on your first egg Emmy...super eggciting!!
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                  It's probably one of the Rangers - 3 of mine are laying. They come into lay much sooner than the pure breeds. All of mine do the crouch down, wing back thing but one isn't eggy yet. Still plenty of time!
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                    Congratulations, Emmylou. My first is definitely going to be a soft-boiled-and-soldiers egg.
                    Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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                      Originally posted by Flummery View Post
                      It's probably one of the Rangers - 3 of mine are laying. They come into lay much sooner than the pure breeds. All of mine do the crouch down, wing back thing but one isn't eggy yet. Still plenty of time!
                      Hi, yes I think you are prob right, its just that my daughter said the sussex had been sat in the nest box!!
                      Any ideas on the shutting of eye thing? she still seems to be doing it today. She isn't fluffed up or poorly looking though.
                      "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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