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What do you use in your nesting boxes?
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What do you use in your nesting boxes?
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The color of the eggs are dark, and I use tabacosteels in the nesting boxes too prevent lice and mite. Using it now for ten years but never had lice and mite.
If I put other things in it they throw it out..
Thanks everyone for posting pictures of your eggs!
I guess our first two red stars or ISA's (not sure which as back then I didn't pay as close attention) just layed abnormally dark egg shells.
In other news - I never believed people before when they said their hen laid 2 eggs in 1 day, well now I do. The other morning(at 8 am) when I came home from work there were two full sized (soft shelled) eggs on the floor of the coop under the roosting bar. I know they were not there the night before because she laid an egg that day, and she is the only hen that lays brown eggs. Both of them appear infertile however.
Although rare I have had birds lay more than two eggs in one day. I don't collect my eggs until evenings and have found an extra egg in a nest box, so it does happen. The most likely cause is the bird did not lay an egg the day before and had a developed egg she had layed while developing another egg which she would lay later in the day. This is just my thought. Once in awhile I get a double yolk egg especially with my pullets when they first start laying. which would be two eggs developing with one shell.
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Don't be too disappointed if the hatch rate isn't very good. This time of the year the fertility rate isn't very good. I would sacrifice an egg and break it open to check it.
No one else wants to contribute to the discussion? I think an ISA Brown thread is a good idea.