Ack! How much longer can it last???

[CupOJoe42]

Maybe they think you're doing the "Funky Chicken" dance? You should show them a recipe book with nice chicken recipes, a stew pot, and a cleaver... they might get the hint.

Someone else posted that they painted the inside of the nest boxes a dark color. Maybe they need more privacy?

You could always make a chicken-lovers workout video instead of selling eggs?

 

[Jeffross1968]

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Beautiful house...I'll have to keep an eye out for it next time I'm over there.

 

[Jeffross1968]

My wife, with a straight face, has now requested that I attempt these dances at night...naked, with the citronella torches and a fire going in the fire pit. She then stated something about how we needed batteries for the camera.

I'm sure these two things are not connected...right?

 

[Noymira]

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That sounds like a case for blackmail!

But seriously, good luck, I brought home two new hens and one laid after 2 weeks, the other took 3 weeks before she started. Are they doing "the squat" for you? I've found that eggs follow about a week after that for mine.

 

[spotstealer]

Where you wearing the chicken costume? This may help, and would be more you-tube worthy than your wife's idea of being naked> Maybe SHE is a bit broody????

 

[Jeffross1968]

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LOL! Maybe I should get a chicken costume...

 

[Jeffross1968]

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That sounds like a case for blackmail!

But seriously, good luck, I brought home two new hens and one laid after 2 weeks, the other took 3 weeks before she started. Are they doing "the squat" for you? I've found that eggs follow about a week after that for mine.

Yeah, I saw the same thing with my EE. My BO has been squatting for me since the day we got her. She laid 2 eggs and then nothing for nearly 3 weeks. The others won't squat, even the ones I've had for a while who are already laying.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

Jeff did the Cherokee explain the significance of painting the Cherokee symbols for "chicken" and "egg" on either shoulder in yellow and tieing a feather from each of your ladies in your hair? You can't forget this part.

It's still taking time here. I have the one EE that has laid 5 eggs and yesterday I got my first brown egg but it was a dud. I've had every talk in the book with my ladies as well.

 

[Jeffross1968]

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I've lost faith in Cherokee tradition! I can't get them to lay!!!

My EE had a dud (soft shell) yesterday, but today was back to normal. Worried me for a day. Guess that's normal for a new layer. I don't know what's going on with my other girls...they are happy and eating and not overheating. As for the talks...pretty sure they are ignoring me...

Ugh, and the one we hoped was a hen, but everyone told us was a rooster, who has somehow switched teams and now everyone is trying to tell us is a hen....this thing (whatever it is) is pure evil. 3 different days over the last week, he/she has broke out in egg song, or what sounds very much like egg song, and when I come running is just standing there. No egg. I'm about to cull the whole lot of them and have a cookout for the neighbors...

 

[CupOJoe42]

Maybe he/she is shy. I couldn't lay anything with someone watching either!!!