Ok, here's a question- just received my day old babies (yay!) and was planning to travel to PA for long weekend July 4th. I was going to have M-i-L watch them at her house, but would it be do-able to bring them along instead, in their brooder? (So they'd be sure to get the attention they...
So I've finally (again) broken 2 of my silkies of their broody behavior. I let them out to freerange with the others today, and noticed one of them just standing there, not pecking, not eating. I managed to catch her and gave her a quick once-over. No apparent injury, crop appears to be...
My RIR would stand outside the nest box and sing to the silkies laying (they hang out together) Now I know where the expression "egging them on" comes from!!
ETA OOPS! Sorry for the double post..
My RIR would stand outside the nest box and sing to the silkies laying (they hang out together) Now I know where the expression "egging them on" comes from!!
I have 9, (6 standard, 3 silkies), and one community nest box. I've seen 2 at a time in there, otherwise they wait their turn
Can you remove partitions or anything, to make one box larger, more community style...? Good luck!
Really?!? My April 2010 babies have been laying for a solid month now!
Guess I had early bloomers...?
ETA We get between 4-6 eggs/day, with 6 standards and 3 silkies. Even the silkies have been laying, but one's gone broody on me just starting yesterday...
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Sounds like you answered your own question Cheers!
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This is exactly why I said in my original post that I already knew about the bloom and all of the arguments against washing eggs.......you are going to get so many different opinions that you wind up still not knowing what to do. My...
...was very soft - like a water balloon. SO strange! My question (finally!): Is it possible these chickens were so scared that they dropped the eggs they were developing for laying the next day? (kind of like "scaring the s**t" out of someone!?) Any thoughts on this bizarre finding? Thanks!
I noticed my 16 week old Speckled Sussex, Bella, pacing and going in and out of the coop this afternoon. I put a dishpan with a couple of fake eggs and some hay in the coop - sure enough, she settled down into the pan, pushed the 2 "eggs" underneath herself, and was throwing hay onto her back...
Thank you all! I, too, use shavings for the coop bedding, and felt the boxes should have something different....( I especially liked that idea of using dried grasses - way to recycle!!)