Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

[USVIyardbird]

Just checking in guys. Still doing the 5-6 eggs a day. Got 6 today!!! I decide to do some renovations on the hen cage. My girls were not sleeping on the roost , but on the nesting boxes. So I changed out that wood was tired of scrapping all that poop. I added wire on the top so they won't be going back up there. My BO decided she wanted to come in and lay while I was in the middle of changing the wood. So she fussed untilI I let her do her thing. I also did a full cleaning of the cage and sanitized everything, touched up on the paint, how do they manage to poop on the sides????. Also added fresh straw to the nesting boxes . Its time for them to sleep and the girls are now fussing cause they cant sleep where they use to. Oh well they will get use to it. ...and now I am tired. Goodnight all.

 

[debbie_nibbles]

Nice and fresh for the girls

 

[Melabella]

Nice and fresh for the girls

Oh don't you just love when you sit back and look how nice it looks after cleaning? Wish it could stay like that every day! Nice looking coop there debbie!

MB

 

[theotherfoote]

Nice and fresh for the girls

I love the smell of fresh shavings!

 

[CatSol]

mmm.... fresh shaving smell wonderful. Great job Debbie...

 

[debbie_nibbles]

Oh don't you just love when you sit back and look how nice it looks after cleaning? Wish it could stay like that every day! Nice looking coop there debbie!

MB

I know, they are worth it though Thank you!

 

[debbie_nibbles]

I know, they are worth it though Thank you!

Thanks to all of you LOL It started with a 4x4 coop now its a 4x8 with a enclosed 10x12 run. The husband loves to build things

 

[kacklinkelly]

Am SOOOO Excited guys

A few days ago a couple of our girls sounded very strange.
Hadn't heard that noise before. Now today, I heard the famous egg song several times. I learned
what it sounds like from watching you tube videos. I have checked the coop several times today
with no egg sighting yet. How long do you think we have to wait before nature takes it course?

 

[Spikes Chooks]

Am SOOOO Excited guys

A few days ago a couple of our girls sounded very strange.
Hadn't heard that noise before. Now today, I heard the famous egg song several times. I learned
what it sounds like from watching you tube videos. I have checked the coop several times today
with no egg sighting yet. How long do you think we have to wait before nature takes it course?

Any day now! Some of my girls sang for a couple of days first and others didn't sing till they had actually laid for the first time. But it is REAL close. Yay for you!!

I still get shell-less eggs off the roost 2-3 days per week. Most days I get 3 eggs from my 4 girls. The odd 4 egg day is a cause for celebration. It's hard to say if one or two may be laying ones without shells. I hope they grow out of it (they are 35 weeks old). I posted a thread about it and a BYCer suggested trace elements and amino acids. I can buy a liquid form to add to mash or water, so I am trying that as well as liquid calcium, as it has been going on for well over a month now. Seems such a waste!

Off topic - we have wildlife nesting boxes in the large trees in our suburban Sydney garden. One is designed for Sugar Gliders which are small nectar-eating marsupials. The entry hole is just 3 cm across, so their heads are very tiny. A friend braved the tall ladder to take this photo for us. There are certainly 5, maybe 7 of them, sleeping here during the day time. There are remians of honeycomb inside the box from a swarm of honeybees which stiopped over for a few weeks last year. The sweet smell would have attracted them to make this home.

It is late summer here, so this will be a mother and her babies from this year. Possibly the father too and maybe girls from last year. Bachelor boys have to go find their own home. Soooo cute and nice to know we are doing a little bit to help our wildlife find substitute homes for their natural habitat.

Happy egg waiting everyone!
Katrina

 

[Melabella]

Any day now! Some of my girls sang for a couple of days first and others didn't sing till they had actually laid for the first time. But it is REAL close. Yay for you!!

I still get shell-less eggs off the roost 2-3 days per week. Most days I get 3 eggs from my 4 girls. The odd 4 egg day is a cause for celebration. It's hard to say if one or two may be laying ones without shells. I hope they grow out of it (they are 35 weeks old). I posted a thread about it and a BYCer suggested trace elements and amino acids. I can buy a liquid form to add to mash or water, so I am trying that as well as liquid calcium, as it has been going on for well over a month now. Seems such a waste!

Off topic - we have wildlife nesting boxes in the large trees in our suburban Sydney garden. One is designed for Sugar Gliders which are small nectar-eating marsupials. The entry hole is just 3 cm across, so their heads are very tiny. A friend braved the tall ladder to take this photo for us. There are certainly 5, maybe 7 of them, sleeping here during the day time. There are remians of honeycomb inside the box from a swarm of honeybees which stiopped over for a few weeks last year. The sweet smell would have attracted them to make this home.

It is late summer here, so this will be a mother and her babies from this year. Possibly the father too and maybe girls from last year. Bachelor boys have to go find their own home. Soooo cute and nice to know we are doing a little bit to help our wildlife find substitute homes for their natural habitat.

Happy egg waiting everyone!
Katrina

Katrina!

I've been thinking about you! so happy to see a post from you! Yes, those shell less eggs are a worry,, I have had about 5 since my girls started. I am thinking that it was just the new layers getting it right. Haven't seen one in a while. I never really knew who was doing it. Found few in the boxes as well. Do you feed them the shells of their eggs back to them after you have used them? I have fed them back every shell back, I mix it in with their oyster shell. Good luck with the elements and amino acids, and also with the liquid calcium.

Just to pass along something. Once a week or so, I buy a papaya, and cut it in half and feed it to the flock. Papaya has so many health benefits, so good for you, and the chickens! The seeds inside look like caviar, and the girls go absolutely wacky for it.. I recently read that the seeds are a natural wormer much like pumpkin seeds. One of the helpful things is it has an enzyme that helps break down proteins, and also enables healthy production of amino acids. It's worth a try. I haven't had a shell less egg in quite a while. Maybe this helped a bit? Either way, it is a super healthy food to give them, and it is by far, the most favorite thing that I give to them..

Those marsupials are so adorable. Amazing the difference in wildlife on opposite sides of the world. I would feel good too about helping out. I feel bad how humans have moved in and therefore moved out animals that were here long before we were.

Glad that the weather is a more tolerable for you guys. It is brutally cold here tonight,, 3 degrees out. I am so very ready for spring, can't come soon enough!

MB