The pullets I bought in mid-April, around the time of my last post (for shame), should be laying... I say should because they are not, or at least not where I can find the eggs. Oh, one or two of them is dropping me a token egg in the nest every couple of days, but I have 30 plus hens, for heaven's sake, I should be rolling in eggs.
Where are they laying? I have looked all over the wooded areas they frequent, climbed high up on the hay in the barn, checked every likely spot. Nothin'. Supposedly, hens like to lay in nests where there are already eggs. I don't know who asked the hens about this, but I thought it was worth a try. I put ceramic eggs in the nests that look so much like the real thing I had to mark them so I wouldn't pick them up by mistake. I think the only one being fooled here is me.
Meanwhile, these girls are eating me out of house and home.
Here are a couple of the pics of the slackers,
This one below I believe is a Hamburg. Isn't she pretty? Now if only she'd lay an egg.
