How did it go for the rest?
I just found our chicken had abandoned the duck eggs she had been sitting on and the eggs were cold. :( They are due to hatch tomorrowish, and in candling them most looked like they should. So we have them warmed up now with a light - not the best, but we're...
I know this is an older post, but just in case you see this, what happened? I am having the SAME problem! I have 8 Khaki Campbells who are finally laying and both my husband and I are getting progressively worse stomach aches after eating them. So bad that we're afraid to eat them. We've...
Mine are locked up until about 6:50 and sunrise is still before that, so I've only found 1 egg not in the coop. But, out of 5-7 eggs a day, usually only 1 is in a nest box, the rest are scattered around the corner they sleep in (and therefore dirty). But mine have only been laying for a few...
I have 12 chickens and 12 ducks. They share a coop that is really a stall - about 10 x 10. The ducks sleep in the corner on the floor together. Like another poster, I have no water or food (they must have water with their food) in the coop. With bedding in there, it's not so bad. Their yard...
Yes. But the chickens have the same food and we can eat their eggs and feel fine. So wouldn't that eliminate that as a factor? I am willing to try it if it could be that!
So we've raised up ducks and they started laying about a month ago. Both my husband and I were getting progressively worse stomach aches - sour and crampy after breakfast and through trials of eating the duck eggs only, our chicken eggs only, and store-bought chicken eggs only on different...