Redning combs?
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chrismahon
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A sign of coming into lay Nitram. Will be combined with less frequent but much larger poos. Then it's only a matter of days. Sometimes they will squat if you pass you hand over them -they think you are a cockerel.
They may also inspect the nestboxes and see what it feels like to sit inside for a while. The squatting is certainly diagnostic, as Chris says.
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In both cockrels and pullets, reddening comb is a sign of maturity. Feed her a balanced ration and you'll get more eggs.
We got our first egg!!!!! Dark brown, medium size, I have heard the first eggs are small and get larger after a while. The red sex-links are supposed to lay large to extra large eggs. How long will it take for her to be laying her normal size eggs?
chrismahon
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Congratulations Nitram. Our TNN chicks have taken a full year to get to the size of eggs they were hatched from, but that is exceptional I think. I would expect the egg size to be settled in a few months, but we have had hybrids that laid the finished size of egg within a few weeks. The birds are after all still growing and some of their energy is going there.
