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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: sandy on August 28, 2008, 10:38:17 pm

Title: Has Harriet Laid an egg or was it a Pigeon?
Post by: sandy on August 28, 2008, 10:38:17 pm

Saw one of my Black rocks pick up a brocken egg out of the flowers and woundered if it was one of my birds first eggs or was it one of the many Pigeons that nest in the tree above my Hen Hut, hte egg was still wet and smelt of yolk so I will keep a close look on all my plants tomorrow, maybe this is the start of lot's of eggs!!! :-\
IN ANTICIPATION Sandy

Title: Re: Has Harriet Laid an egg or was it a Pigeon?
Post by: monty on August 29, 2008, 08:50:00 pm

DOUGHT IT LOVE AVE SEEN THAT BEFORE

Title: Re: Has Harriet Laid an egg or was it a Pigeon?
Post by: doganjo on September 01, 2008, 03:48:10 pm

Just as I said to you last week, Sandy, I think it may have been a starter egg from one of your chicks. The timing is right and...........  I thought pigeons laid in the spring like most wild birds.  Do other birds lay in the summer as well as poultry?
Annie

Title: Re: Has Harriet Laid an egg or was it a Pigeon?
Post by: hexhammeasure on September 01, 2008, 11:15:48 pm

some birds have more than one sitting, judging by our swallows they seem to have 2 hatches. pigeons will lay all year hence dovecotes for egg collection

Title: Re: Has Harriet Laid an egg or was it a Pigeon?
Post by: Rosemary on September 02, 2008, 07:41:44 am

The suspense is killing me! Come on, Harriet!