Hope everyone has a great day. I'm off to the Imaging Center to get another MRI on the brain.. Wish me luck
I wonder while looking at my brain if they can tell I'm chicken crazyI hope not, because I'm sure I'm Certifiable... Just Say'in!
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Hope everyone has a great day. I'm off to the Imaging Center to get another MRI on the brain.. Wish me luck
I wonder while looking at my brain if they can tell I'm chicken crazyI hope not, because I'm sure I'm Certifiable... Just Say'in!
Chickens eat everything! Mine ate broke plates. It is amazing that they make it in the wild sometimes.
I try to make sure there is nothing bad out in the yard. I can't imagine what they ate last year when the outside of the house was painted!
I ordered some more cochin bantam frizzle eggs. Today was day 18 " locked down"
Out of 36 shipped ....all 36 are fertile and currently in lock down. That amazes me...
A few look a little iffy but 36 out of 36 developed shipped eggs. Amazing
This is great I am going to try my hand at making a pallet coop for isolation purposes out of a tile pallet. Can I ask you questions if/when they come uptoday I built a pallet coop for the teenagers.
Started with a 6 x 2 bareroot tree pallet
70 bucks worth of stuff and there you go. I need to put a cap on the roof so a tarp for tonight.
I moved the chicks I got from Candy plus the Emp's and crele pene's I hatched in the 5x3 grow up pen. The Black Penedesenca and the 3 crele roosters I got back from Deb out in the brooder and guess what a olive egger just hatched and 3 more zipping .. of course the darker empordanesa and penedesenca nothing yet as they take longer it seems so no more mixing them in the bator
Quote: The first time I ran into the egg eating thing was when my father in law bought a place that came with chickens. He killed the chicken each time he saw yolk on its beak. He soon had no more chickens.
Get some Granulated Sea Kelp, Food Grade Diatomaceous earth and mix it into their feed. Make sure they have free choice calcium and get them some big ole bird from Southland Organics.
I am not convinced that your hens are egg eaters.
Edited to add: I don't normally suggest using Soy, but you might consider giving them some Calf Manna or some other source of animal protein too.
Seriously, almost all cases of egg eating is mal nourished or parasite infected hens.
Hope everyone has a great day. I'm off to the Imaging Center to get another MRI on the brain.. Wish me luck
I wonder while looking at my brain if they can tell I'm chicken crazyI hope not, because I'm sure I'm Certifiable... Just Say'in!
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Good Luck Miss Molly...
I was just thinking that when I read your post.. I can see the far side cartoon - exactly like that...
The first time I ran into the egg eating thing was when my father in law bought a place that came with chickens. He killed the chicken each time he saw yolk on its beak. He soon had no more chickens.
Get some Granulated Sea Kelp, Food Grade Diatomaceous earth and mix it into their feed. Make sure they have free choice calcium and get them some big ole bird from Southland Organics.
I am not convinced that your hens are egg eaters.
Edited to add: I don't normally suggest using Soy, but you might consider giving them some Calf Manna or some other source of animal protein too.
Seriously, almost all cases of egg eating is mal nourished or parasite infected hens.
Quote: Yes, keep them separated and make sure they have good old golf balls where they lay eggs.
King feed is lower in calcium so the added calcium is needed more with it. The lower calcium makes if safer if you give it to the rooster though.
An egg eating hen is so rare that it is extremely unlikely that you would have two ever. They will stop when the problems are gone so yes, give them time. Any hen will eat an egg if it is broken, just like they will eat a flock mate if is injured. You would not cull them then, you cover the wound with blu kote and remove them until there is no more blood. When the flock mate comes back he is no longer "food".
The eggs are like that too.
The cat food is a good idea. I use a brand that Costco sells. Mine get a coffee mug of it each afternoon along with two mugs of BOSS)black oil sunflower seeds.