Alright, this is just getting old

[monarc23]

MMMMM!!!!

6 hard-cooked eggs
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon white sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups apple cider vinegar

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mustard-Pickled-Eggs/Detail.aspx

12 eggs
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
3/4 cup water
1 cup white sugar
1 1/4 cups white vinegar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon dried dill weed
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon mustard seed

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Yellow-Pickled-Eggs/Detail.aspx


I love mustard if you didn't notice

 

[Bettacreek]

*Drools* As if I wasn't watching the buttons waiting for eggs enough already, lol. Might just have to settle for regular old chicken eggs from the crappy store.

Can't wait for REAL eggs!

 

[monarc23]

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me too me too

 

[austinhart123]

is it possible they are laying eggs and burying them so u cant find them?

 

[Bettacreek]

Hrmm. No, they haven't been burying them or anything. I talked to the breeder where they came from and his line was laying at around 6-7 weeks, so there's gotta be something going on, and I can only imagine that it's the lights. They were set up with the lights a few days ago, and the newest batch of buttons will be set up with lights early on so that I hopefully get eggs right off the bat from them. Same will go for any coturnix that I bring home (his birds are laying now, so I'll be picking up a dozen eggs shortly).

So, for laying, a nice high protein diet, calcium and lighting are the main things to look at for them? Anything else that may encourage/prohibit laying?

 

[monarc23]

yep and keeping stress low

(no over crowdng, keeping the roo to hen ratio good---- 1 roo to atleast 3 hens to 5 hens tops).

 

[Bettacreek]

Hrmm. Right now, I have the two whites together and the cinnamon roo and ivory hen together in another cage. I wasn't sure of genders, so I didn't want to mix them together and end up with two pairs and having the two roos fighting. I do think that at least one of the whites is a female though. As for stress, I think they have me more stressed out than what I have them, lol. I do have a hell of a time feeding them though, they're so skittish. I hope that I'm not stressing them too much with the maintenance. Grem doesn't have access to them, so he doesn't pester them, but they are in the bathroom for right now, which is being used a lot by me (yay pregnancy, lol). Maybe I'll have to move them again, somewhere with a little less "traffic".

 

[monarc23]

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Heres a thought that you could try if you dont wanna move them, or even if you do move them. WHat about covering part of their enclosure with a towel or something? To atleast give them somewhere to be safe. OR better yet.... do you happen to go to mcdonalds alot or know someoen who does? Ask them to save their cup holders, and if you put two up and lean them into eachoter then tape them together at the top like a teepee beleive me yourbuttons will LOve it and hide in it a lot.

My cinnamon hen started laying like crazy whenshe had a hidey area

edited to add the ratio was for coturnix

 

[Bettacreek]

I'll have to try giving them hides. Better for them to have a place to run than to have a heart attack every time someone walks into the same room.

Such sensitive little birds. Shame that they're not the ones made for eating, I wouldn't feel as bad about eating such a spazzy bird, lol. Besides, you wouldn't have to do the "dirty", just look at them and they'll keel over for you, then dress them out...

 

[jvls1942]

avoiding them only makes them more wild, It is hard to tame a whole flock, but one is easy,

and they are tiny, but they are delicious