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@beautbots01 wrote:

Congratulations Dad.  Just in time for Fathers Day too.  Now that would go well on toast for brekky.  

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I have to wonder if the suspected rooster had anything to do with that egg, in which case joe's better half might be wanting to incubate it rather than eat it...............................

A hen doesn't need a rooster to lay eggs, only to fertilise that egg.  So if it was a hen camping at Joe's then there should have been more eggs.  Assuming of course that that hen has reached egg laying stage.  But of course if it was the rooster up the tree, as someone earlier has suggested, then that would be why there has been no eggs until now when mrs chookie came a visitin'.   

I think the readers of this thread are enjoying the play out of what will be.  

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@beautbots01 wrote:

I think the readers of this thread are enjoying the play out of what will be.  

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My money's on a (large) chook pen built from flattened paint tins, and an ex paint seller living in a tent next to it, and caring for them all.

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Or.........................................

Joe I hope you really mean that your wife is going to be rapt (as in very happy) when she gets home, as opposed to wraped which could be either of two words - wrapped (as a parcel) being one of them.  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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@padi*0409 wrote:

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@imastawka wrote:

Got any eggs yet?

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That one on the right looks like a rooster Stalks..................not many eggs from those critters..............

 

 

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Could come in useful to increase the size of the flock though..............from a paint seller to a chicken farmer in one easy move........

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They both look like hens in the photo. Light Sussex.

There could be eggs all over the place. As Joe has taken that egg, she will lay somewhere different tomorrow. 

as usual i get home after 1 in the morning from thursday night, and i can report another egg which was picked up by my wife later yesterday in the same spot as the other one , patricia has built a nest under a chair that was holding pots, that i was sopose to clear and trim the tree. but thats another story. 

the bigest problem is patricia  is following the other chook ,but the other chook  has no road sence , walks on the footpath crosses the busy roads , and still sleeps at the dentist property and patricia is back at our house about 5 pm and climbs the big tree and sleeps on a branch, how weard is that , but in the morning they get together in my front yard.

the misus wants me to build a hutch, but listen to this she does not want to eat the eggs ,firstly  no hutch and even if we have a hutch  what does she expect me to do with the eggs as i dont eat eggs , she does.

not a rooster as she sleeps at the dentist which is 3 houses away  ,we would of heard it or the baker across the road ,we can give the eggs to him.

If she wants to keep them,  put them in the butter compartment in the fridge door andleave them there. In a few months they will be all dried out inside. If you shake one you can hear the solid yolk rattle. It could take 12 months to dehydrate properly. Alternatively, she could blow them and the use the contents for cooking.

Now that youfound the nest, she may not go back to that spot.if both eggs turned up today they would have laid one each. If you want her to keep laying in that spot,  stick a golf ball or ping pong ball there.

She would be going up the tree because chooks like to sleep high. If perches in a coup are staggered in height they will all fight over the highest one.