Egg song but no eggs - what gives?

[2dogs1cat]

My SS laid her first egg on Thursday and nothing since. She sings rather loudly each evening but no more eggs. For all the commotion you think that something had happened. Is she just a boastful hen?

My EE laid her first egg on Thursday too but no song. Normal for the breed or is she an oddity? When she sneezes she chirps so she's not like the rest.

This is so confusing.

 

[pgpoultry]

Are you sure that your hens aren't laying somewhere other than the coop? (Under a bush, behind a fence etc.)I have found piles of rotting eggs after chasing down the 'egg song' to long grass before now. Also hens who have just come into lay sometimes sing the egg song even when they haven't laid!

Oh, and don't worry, not all hens of any type sing the 'egg song'.

If a hen sings the 'egg song', then often others, including the boys, join in and you have them echoing each other for 5 or 10 minutes.

Well, I should think that I have thoroughly confused you, just like my chickens seem to do with me,

Good Luck,

sandie

 

[joletabey]

Sometimes it takes them a while to get started. I have two BBS Orp pullets, one of whom sings for the other, one who just clucks and grumbles. The grumbler started laying 10 days before the singer, and has laid almost every day. The singer laid one egg about 5 days ago, and one yesterday- they are different in shape and color, so I can tell. Your birds are just getting their act together.

 

[geebs]

egg eating?

 

[Bridget399]

I don't normally get any eggs in the evening. Maybe she' s singing the other to sleep?! When my Golden Comet made her egg song last summer, I rushed over to watch her lay a "balloon egg", it burst as soon as it hit the ground. If I had not been out there to see that, I would have never known she had started. I got them Oyster Shell, and got better eggs in no time.

 

[Happy Chooks]

The egg song doesn't always come with an egg. The can sing before, during and after eggs are laid. Once you hear the egg song though, you know you are really close to getting eggs.

 

[featherz]

I have two RIR that are too young to be actually laying eggs (13 weeks) but both are reddening up , growing a comb and singing what appears to be eggsong every other day or so (several minutes of cluck cluck cluck BAWK!). When do you think I should start the oyster shell? (they are all on flock raiser). The other two RIR's are running behind and my leghorns appear to be WAY behind - all yellow still.

Will oyster shell hurt the other 13 weekers if a few of their sisters start first?

(not expecting any eggs soon, but I guess it COULD happen... )

 

[Happy Chooks]

Oh and my rooster sings the egg song also. And he's definitely not going to be laying any eggs! (If he does, I'm RICH!)

 

[2dogs1cat]

I've searched the yard, no eggs to be found anywhere odd. I think my BA just likes to hear herself *lol* And she is LOUD!

My SS was an overachiever today, laid 2 eggs.

May the others take note and get their acts together...

Thanks for all the input

 

[gaillardia]

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My RIR started laying at 17 weeks. I did not start the oyster shell until the first egg. I was told it was ok to start the oystershell with the others since they are all about the same age. BR started laying at 19 weeks.

My Buff Cochin has been singing for 3 weeks, but no eggs from her yet. She seems to sing only when she is aggitated.