19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone?? - Page 95

Originally Posted by LeslieDJoyce 

I hadn't heard tomatoes were potentially toxic before, either (though I know a lot of older people who believe they are toxic to humans, too). Wonder if it is supposedly just the plant that causes trouble ... or ... what ... ??? Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to grill him on that statement. But if I was anxious about getting my hens to lay, I'd do just about anything. Squeeze, shake, stern lectures, bribes, ground them. Don't know if you saw my egg charm ... 

 

 

Originally Posted by blondiebee181 

I can just see it now...a bonfire burning and you dancing and chanting around it wearing beads and bangles and shaking that magic stick!! And the chickens going..."Hmmm.....think we should tell her where we hid the eggs yet?" Bwahahaaaa!!!! Lol!

Originally Posted by Rhoise 

I love that stick!!! BEAUTIFUL!! and a fire dance with it to honor the pullets would be a blast!!!

Originally Posted by blondiebee181 

I can just see it now...a bonfire burning and you dancing and chanting around it wearing beads and bangles and shaking that magic stick!! And the chickens going..."Hmmm.....think we should tell her where we hid the eggs yet?" Bwahahaaaa!!!! Lol!

Originally Posted by LeslieDJoyce 

 

Oh, I'm not above any of that. You did say wearing JUST beads and bangles, right?

 

Did we post about one of the hens that laid an egg on TOP of the coop? Part of our coop is open air- covered with shade cloth. The naughty girls have figured out a way to hop up there from the run, and have made a corner of it a little saggy. That's the spot we found an egg -- suspended in the shade cloth above the play-pen part of the coop. It was a White Leghorn egg. Probably caught herself off guard with a first egg while she was enjoying the view and plotting how to get to the almost-ripe prunes. They do seem to prefer to lay in the nesting boxes, if they're empty, though we find some of the first eggs in random spots. We can tell they're first eggs by the size. We are starting to get a line-up outside our nesting boxes now ... I posted on my facebook page that it is like the line outside the ladies room at a figure skating show. There was so much noise in the quiet part of the coop the other day ... a bossy Brown Leghorn who wanted one particular nesting box but someone else was taking her time using it. We'd better build more nesting boxes. It seems this coop will never be finished. But ... Yay! ... Eggs!

Originally Posted by blondiebee181 

I can just see it now...a bonfire burning and you dancing and chanting around it wearing beads and bangles and shaking that magic stick!! And the chickens going..."Hmmm.....think we should tell her where we hid the eggs yet?" Bwahahaaaa!!!! Lol!

Originally Posted by sebocat 

 Its like easter morning, but the magic is real! 

Originally Posted by sebocat 

Two things to share....
First, I asked my son if we had any ping pong balls or golf balls to put in the nest. " why?"he asked. So I told him that it helps the girls know where it is safe to lay eggs. He eyeballed me suspiciously the way only a 15 year old and can do and we went about our days. I came home from work a few days later, checked the girls and poked my head in their boxes as hopefully as I had been doing for the last 3 weeks (yes, im anxious) and there was something small and sweet and round. I squealed and did a happy dance and got 7 kinds of excited and reached in and pulled out a perfectly round golfball. Nice.
A week went by, and i checked the nests as regularly as ever, always with a little more hope and excitement than the process deserved. Today, I repeated the process. ....and the happy dance that followed was real! Its half the size of a store bought grade aa, but it is perfectly brown and smooth and its the sweetest. Little thing ever. Its like easter morning, but the magic is real! Now if I can only figure out how to get the picture off of my camera and on this post....
Wahooo! My baby made me breakfast!!!!

Originally Posted by sebocat 

Two things to share....
First, I asked my son if we had any ping pong balls or golf balls to put in the nest. " why?"he asked. So I told him that it helps the girls know where it is safe to lay eggs. He eyeballed me suspiciously the way only a 15 year old and can do and we went about our days. I came home from work a few days later, checked the girls and poked my head in their boxes as hopefully as I had been doing for the last 3 weeks (yes, im anxious) and there was something small and sweet and round. I squealed and did a happy dance and got 7 kinds of excited and reached in and pulled out a perfectly round golfball. Nice.
A week went by, and i checked the nests as regularly as ever, always with a little more hope and excitement than the process deserved. Today, I repeated the process. ....and the happy dance that followed was real! Its half the size of a store bought grade aa, but it is perfectly brown and smooth and its the sweetest. Little thing ever. Its like easter morning, but the magic is real! Now if I can only figure out how to get the picture off of my camera and on this post....
Wahooo! My baby made me breakfast!!!!