First egg from the new cocks

[Buster121]

I had my first egg this evening from one of the 4 new stock cocks, hopefully the others won't be far behind. I wasn't originally going to keep these first ones but am now thinking I might, I'll see how close together the others lay first and will then decide.

Good to see, hope others follow

[Buster121]

I was in my small shed yesterday feeding the stock birds and found an empty egg shell on the floor, I knew my 2 pairs of Des Coulter birds were sitting eggs but was convinced they were plastic ones I've only got about 5 pairs on eggs and still managed to miss some lol I don't mind having them I just didn't want them this early, this poor pair will have to run the gauntlet of 60+ old birds on their own when I wean them, I hope they are big strong birds

They will be winners for sure Trev

[Buster121]

I had my second pair lay yesterday, they are a bit slower going down than I'd have liked but to honest they are all young hens and the environment isn't the best. I am going to keep them but as a couple more pairs of my race birds have laid I'm going to give these first round eggs to them after a couple of weeks and will let the stock pairs go down again.

Sure will all work out fine