here I was wondering if its just spring fever, my boys are loveing 3 of my girls wayyy too much,( have 14 girls to 2 roo's ) they now have bare backs again, and its still too cold up here. Would put them back in the boys pen again but the other roos were trying to kill them , thats why they...
they will even kick out wood shavings too ... even tried moss and that didn't work either ...sigh ... I just keep replaceing the bedding with new wood shavings ... my problem is getting one of my girls to stop laying her eggs right at the door ... have almost steped on a few ... but she let me...
up the protien for them ( I feed mine black oil sunflowers) thats what I have read in different posts ... worth a try not sure if it will help or not, but the girls could use the extra protien
they will figure it out... ours slept on the floor alot too .. now they all use the roosts or the roof of the nesting boxes .. but when I check on them in the evening some want to roost on me
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We did threaten them with freezer camp ... But I think I was correct that they talked it out and were waiting for the big run to be done ... we finished the run .... presto ... an egg
hubby told them something was going into the frying pan ... he now has his something
this is next to a store bought large egg ...hummm not bad for the 1st egg
I think this was from our BR ... she is the one that squated for me this past week , if so than the younger ones have started before the girls that are 8 weeks older ... go figure ... Im just so glad they started
When I...
sorry nifty ... but using byc photo upload it will not bring up the pics .. it just shows as the url and not the photo ,,, not sure what Im doing wrong but its not working
they love to keep us waiting ( I think they know it buggs us )
Im in the same boat , one of my younger girls squated for me today not the ones that are 8 weeks older .... silly loveable things they are....... they know our buttons don't they
I think mine went on strike ( even before laying any ) till the big run was done ... was not till today that I had one do the sqat for me ( we put them in the big run for the 1st time on sunday)
I have tried bribing them ... telling them hubby wants something in his frying pan ... even...
you have one here you did the right thing
I hope you roo settles down soon .. mine have just descovered thier * man hood * so to speak , but on the good side one of my girls did the sqat for me today hopefully I will get our 1st egg soon
here is a close up of a set of swing poop boards that teach1rusl was talking about ... now the chickies did like to swing on them when they were younger but they don't now ... they work great and I just unhook them and can wash them off every now and than as well as scraping them ... we like them