Yay!!! I have four laying hens now!!

**Missy** · 05-08-2009, 06:34 PM

My fourth, a young silkie hen is laying eggs. Her very first was today. I am so excited.

Hens start laying after about 20 weeks. Some sooner, it's all individual. However Muppet is 28 weeks old. She's just a little thing, a bantam variety. Her breed is called "Silkie" they lack the gene in their feathers to create what you may percieve as true feathers, she has a more down feather feel and look to her. She looks like a Jim Henson Muppet. Hense the name.

**dcompton** · 05-08-2009, 10:50 PM

Missy, we need a photo of the muppet chicken. Would you post one?

Congrats to both of you on the First Egg.

**Missy** · 05-09-2009, 08:56 AM

here she is...

**Rebookie** · 05-09-2009, 12:36 PM

I am jealous!!! I wanna chicken..But I live in a subdivision.

=(

**dcompton** · 05-09-2009, 04:08 PM

Fancy lady dressed in fluff. The topknot does indeed make her look like a muppet. Good name. Thanks for the photo!

**Trishagirl** · 05-09-2009, 04:30 PM

Yeah me too I'm jealous, but congrats to you she's a cutie too!

**miss_thrifty** · 05-09-2009, 05:53 PM

what a cute chicken, excellent name too , fits it name.

congrats on the eggs.

**fixer** · 05-09-2009, 07:45 PM

I have a really bad case of chicken envy.

**ladytoysdream** · 05-09-2009, 07:50 PM

That is one cute chicken...how big is her eggs ?

We have 12 meat chicks coming up fast...3 weeks old...probably will end up for sunday dinners. But I will have me some laying hens by fall....I be determined now

Son just hatched out 9 turkeys...his first try. 9 out of 9 ...so 100 % .
He tells me we can have his extras...he only wants 2 females, 1 male for himself.

**kittykatstrong** · 05-13-2009, 03:06 AM

What a fitting name.

**freebs** · 05-13-2009, 07:46 AM

Thats great missy! I finally up to 8. just had a hen finish setting that hatched out 8.

**Michelle** · 05-13-2009, 08:10 AM

That's so cool. I would love to have chickens someday.

**Missy** · 05-13-2009, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by ladytoysdream

That is one cute chicken...how big is her eggs ?

ROFL I wish I had paid closer attention to this thread!! I din't mean to ignore you!

Her eggs are half as big as my other hens eggs. about as big as an inch and a half long. Petite little eggs. It looks like her eggs are barely bigger than quail eggs. it'll take at least two to equal a small chicken egg. Hee hee, and she's some proud of them too... oh, I know! It's about the size of a small walnut, or a pecan (in shell). Bigger than an almond. not by much though. that's a fitting description of size. And they are a pale beige color.

I am having such fun with them. I don't know what I was thinking before. I shoulda had them much much sooner.