These little beauties lay just about every day, so no thread of running out.....unless they all follow Olga's route and go broody! Grrrrrr......your chickens are SO beautiful! I want to order some of your eggs, but I need to wait until I get an incubator. Don't run out,ok?
I have found that high humidity in lockdown is a bad thing with the Olandsk - I have had better luck with lower humidity in lockdown. Read back a few pages in this thread for some discussion on the humidity issue.
I also found that grinding the food for the first week or so seems to be more kind. I did the same for the teeny-tiny Seramas we hatched years ago. Couldn't figure out why they wouldn't eat until I realized the crumble was as big as their head!
Love it!What a silly time of year to go broody. Mine too.Lisbet is the only one of my Olandsk hens to get broody so far, and this is her 3rd time this year! Not letting her sit on eggs though, even though her sisters are giving her 3 or 4 a day to sit on. I have to pull them every day, and she is NOT happy about that! Now that it is getting cold and rainy I understand the urge to hunker down in a nice warm bed though - I think humans should seriously work on evolving into creatures who hibernate for a good 3 or 4 months every winter.
Here is my silly girl this morning:
She lets me pet her and say I'm sorry for bothering her while I give her the golf ball back.
What's the temp? We've had some cooler rainy days here, and they seem to do ok. One of our roosters stayed out all night the other night, found him on the other side of the pasture fence, frozen feathers and all. He recovered ok. He had pheasant hen with him when he returnedAdvice, please.
I have a few sopping wet Dwarf hens (lots of rain here) and the wind is picking up. They won't stay in the coop when I put them in there (no door). Should I let them be or get them into some kind of shelter (I assume they wouldn't appreciate a blow dry
Mid 40's in the wind.What's the temp? We've had some cooler rainy days here, and they seem to do ok. One of our roosters stayed out all night the other night, found him on the other side of the pasture fence, frozen feathers and all. He recovered ok. He had pheasant hen with him when he returned. As long as they have shelter available to them, I usually let them make the decision.
