My eggs are frozen...

crtrlovr

Still chillin' with my peeps
Mar 13, 2008
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and if it gets any colder, the ones from my chickens will be, too!
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It's not even officially winter yet, and it's in the single digits here in western Kentucky...
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wow! They really DID go on strike on you, didn't they? Even with this cold, I'm still getting at very minimum 12+, and usually more like 18-24. This is from a group of 30 full size girls, 3 Silkies, 3 frizzles (this spring's hatch), and 3 bantam OEGBs which has at least 2 of the full size girls molting right now, and one nearly naked Frizzle who also molted this same time last year.
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There are 7 new girls from a friend who had a nasty neighbor complain about her babies and she had to give them up.
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give em some extra heat...millet and a suet cake.. might make them appreciate you more.
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In truth, I've only gotten one frozen one thus far (it was laid outside on the ground, for whatever reason -- maybe someone was hogging the favorite nest spot AGAIN...
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) and I brought it inside and put it on the stove. It thawed, and I mixed it in with some other eggs I was scrambling for the chickens. It looked completely normal after it thawed. The shell wasn't cracked, either. Last winter I did get some out of the nest boxes that were frozen, but they too thawed and I cooked them for the inside birds and/or the chickens.
 
Mine are frozen nearly every day now, but none of them have cracked yet (except one I squished in my coat pocket by accident) and they bake/cook just like the unfrozen ones.
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Maybe I just don't know any better.
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when its this cold I give up hope of getting eggs that arent frozen. and Im only getting maybe 2 a day anyway from my EE's, the RIR went on winter strike weeks ago.
 
When it's cold I add cayenne pepper to the feed. I don't know why it works but it does. a 1/2 teaspoon per pound of feed and the egg production comes back up to almost normal levels. I buy cayenne in bulk at the grocery store, keep a baggy in the top of the feed bin, two scoops of feed in the feeder, sprinkle some pepper, two more scoops, another sprinkle, it doesn't add but a few extra seconds to my feeding routine and we get eggs so it's worth it.
 

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