The four pullets are finally 20 calendar week honest-to-god , and they ’re the same size as the hens . Even though winter is just a few days away , the girls will start put down testis soon . I ’m formally on bollock watch .
They ’ll begin when they ’re quick , though . I do n’t see the motivation to coax them to lay with dummy eggs . It ’s an onetime wives ’ narration , tempt a clock biologic function with a prop . Even if I do everything right , each fryer wo n’t lay until she reach her own intimate maturity . ( However , dummy testis are great for showing themwhereto lay once they get thing moving . )
Chicken or Egg: Which Came First?
I ’ve been doing a bit of wimp procreation research , and I ’ve discover that female chick think of with all of the ova ( possible orchis ) they ’ll ever have , just like human female person when they ’re born . So , the nut that one of my chickens hatch from developed inside her female parent hen when the female parent hen was inside her own egg . I sometimes think of reproduction in terms of Russian nesting dolls .
Because we ’re put forward chickens in urban spaces , I ’d say most of us are unlikely to breed chickens at home plate , so we tend to mean of chicken only in terms of food sources . Reproduction can be confusing , sometimes because people are uncomfortable talking about it . Other time , it ’s just a misunderstanding of coinage , though various coinage are shockingly similar . If you ’ve ever been ask if you need a cock to get eggs , you acknowledge what I ’m talking about . Chicken hens ovulate with or without a male partner .
Bronx cheer do sort of “ give birth ” to their eggs , though . Egg - laying happens about 24 hours after existent ovulation . It take that much time for the egg cell to develop and pass through the system . Once it reaches the end , the hen has brawn inside that help her rout the ballock , just like human birth . So , if you ’re raising fecund layers , correctly around the time they lay fresh eggs for your breakfast , their ovaries discharge fresh egg cell that will develop into tomorrow ’s ballock .
Quality Nutrition
Once pullets start laying eggs , it ’s important to continue tender quality nutrition and clean water because their generative systems do n’t terminate working . Older hens and some ornamental breeds do take seasonal break from set , but prolific and immature layers calculate on tone sustenance to make tone testis .
If you ’re a Gallus gallus keeper who does breed at home , you know that the quality of nut spans generations . Like the nesting dame analogy , if a biddy eats poorly and her egg is low quality , the ontogeny of the ova in her chick will affect the wellness of the grandchicken .
What We’re Expecting
The Speckled Sussex , Buff Orpington and Golden - Laced Wyandotte will each lay her own personal subtlety of brown testicle . The Easter Egger will be our surprisal . Most of the time this cross breed lays aristocratical or green ball , but brown , pink and off - white are possible , too .
Despite our Easter Egger Rainbow ’s name , she wo n’t lay rainbows ; each biddy lays her own colour . Rainbow , is mostly pale grey , with the feather around her neck a darker blue - gray . I ’m rooting for sorry eggs , but I ’d love your predictions . What colouring will Rainbow lay ? If you have Easter Eggers me know what you call up .
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