Thanks for the input, If she never lays much again, she has earned her retirement, She lays big eggs for her size, and she's always been a good producer. I'd rather her production dropped off that have to worry about another prolapse. And I hate for any of the girls to die a painful death...
I think she is about 4 years old, not young. I may start putting the cage in the hen house at night so she is in with the girls. It is that time of year for the laying to slow down anyway but I want to be careful to give her the best chance at a recovery without a repeat.
Last week Elphie had a prolapse, I gently tucked everything back in, and in the process found an egg close to the exit, but lost in the prolapse, It broke during gentle attempts to extricate, but I do think I managed to get all of it. I quarantined Elphie and offered her antibiotic spiked...
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I didn't get the second thing you said, lol do you anticipate having Ameracauna's in May possibly? I'm sure I have not quite followed the whole convo!! lol
As much as I'd like to come and meet someone, I think I have to wait if no one will have the chicks I want. Especially if the weather is going to be so bad.
Are you still going to have Ameraucana at some point or did they not work out at all?
Are you planning to be at the swap in May, or any...
There wasn't time to cook eggs today, so next week i think they will be having scrambled eggs.
You know mrsbell, ours dont sing the egg song.. they sing the I'm the queen of the hay stack song, or the hey I'm busy in this box get out song. but not the hey i'm so fab I just laid an egg song..
The kids where so excited to pet the chickens. It was really nice, we even stopped in the 2nd grad class room before we left. They insisted one the eggs I had brought to show was peeping....
I took two of our hens to Kindergarten today, so the kids could see them, and touch them and see how our eggs differ from store eggs.
While we had a Q&A session with Greta: Thalia, hunkered down in the cage and laid a beautiful little green egg. The kids got to hold and pass around a fresh laid...