Yep, not sure if you would call her old, but she is aging, along with her pal, another of the same breed. These gals have been around now for 2 plus years. They were a couple I got from the co-op in our old town. Hatchery stock, from McMurrays. Nothing to look at, just your typical hatchery stock, but oh such lovely gals. They are so friendly, and still bump up to sit on my lap. The one that the buckeye roosters really like has quite a number of feathers missing on her back, not enough that she requires a saddle, but you can see she is a favourite, smiling. The other one, well, they could give two hoots about. The favourite one still is laying an egg every day, never fail, along with the buckeyes, that just don't stop either. Her egg is a totally different shape than the buckeye, so I can ascertain her eggs. Still thinking I should be incubating her eggs, bet she would give some very nice offspring, females of course, great laying capacity, with the massive breast of the buckeye (and laying capacity too). Wonder if offspring may set records even more than recorded of the Australorpe, which I recall reading one had laid 367 or something like that eggs in one year, smiling. Anyways, that is not what I am speaking of, but may still incubate one day to get a great egg layer/meat bird, one never knows.
The gal that the roosters don't give a hoot about was a whammer. For the summer she laid a beautiful double yolker every day. About a month ago, she stopped laying. Not moulting, still is fully intact with all her feathers. She just doesn't lay anymore. She is going to live out her life here, those two gals are inseparable, guess breeds go with breeds, eh?
Oh brother, this tendency to ramble, what on earth is with me
. Opinions required. These are not old gals by the way that "old" means. But would the thought be that because she laid every day a double yolker, that she has used up all the ovum and will not lay anymore eggs. I am very curious about this. I understand that pullets are born with thousands upon thousands of ovum, but is this her last of the egg laying years? Curoisity never once got this cat 
Have that beautiful and wonderful day, CynthiaM.
The gal that the roosters don't give a hoot about was a whammer. For the summer she laid a beautiful double yolker every day. About a month ago, she stopped laying. Not moulting, still is fully intact with all her feathers. She just doesn't lay anymore. She is going to live out her life here, those two gals are inseparable, guess breeds go with breeds, eh?
Oh brother, this tendency to ramble, what on earth is with me
. Opinions required. These are not old gals by the way that "old" means. But would the thought be that because she laid every day a double yolker, that she has used up all the ovum and will not lay anymore eggs. I am very curious about this. I understand that pullets are born with thousands upon thousands of ovum, but is this her last of the egg laying years? Curoisity never once got this cat Have that beautiful and wonderful day, CynthiaM.
