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

[Spikes Chooks]

OMG OMG OMG - Please join me in a celebratory DANCE!!

This is the song I heard when I found my first ever egg in the chicken coop today!!

Will post photo as soon as my cell phone charges.

Thanks for waiting for me to catch up and handling my venting. You are the
best!

Woo Hoo!!!!!

Congratulations!!! How wonderful that egg will taste!!!!
Katrina

 

[KnobbyOaks]

OMG OMG OMG - Please join me in a celebratory DANCE!!

This is the song I heard when I found my first ever egg in the chicken coop today!!

Will post photo as soon as my cell phone charges.

Thanks for waiting for me to catch up and handling my venting. You are the
best!

So happy for you. I know the feeling. I ate my first egg today and it was so good and yellow-rich. I also ate a store-bought egg at the same time and they were different. I'm going to enjoy the farm fresh eggs.

 

[Spikes Chooks]

Here is the Lace Monitor lizard mooching around our campsite. He would have been after the meat we had or the eggs we brought with us kindly donated by our chickens. Seeing him so close up and bold made me very relieved we have a totally enclosed run for the chickens!




They're not great photos, sorry. He managed to steal a bag of bread rolls when we first arrived and not fast enough in our response. They are not especially dangerous to humans but if cornered they can give a nasty scratch with those claws or bites that turn bad. There is a lot of wild birds at this site too and they created a tremendous racket of alarm calls whenever they spotted it. No doubt they have bitter experience of them stealing eggs and chicks. It meant we always knew when he was approaching our supplies!

May your patience soon be rewarded with eggs, everyone

Katrina

 

[kacklinkelly]

I told my daughter that we will do a taste test when we have a few eggs.

We might only get one bite from this teeny one

 

[Melabella]

Here is the Lace Monitor lizard mooching around our campsite. He would have been after the meat we had or the eggs we brought with us kindly donated by our chickens. Seeing him so close up and bold made me very relieved we have a totally enclosed run for the chickens!




They're not great photos, sorry. He managed to steal a bag of bread rolls when we first arrived and not fast enough in our response. They are not especially dangerous to humans but if cornered they can give a nasty scratch with those claws or bites that turn bad. There is a lot of wild birds at this site too and they created a tremendous racket of alarm calls whenever they spotted it. No doubt they have bitter experience of them stealing eggs and chicks. It meant we always knew when he was approaching our supplies!

May your patience soon be rewarded with eggs, everyone

Katrina

HOLY _RAP!!!

If I saw that any where near me I would die a thousand deaths!

 

[Spikes Chooks]

HOLY _RAP!!!

If I saw that any where near me I would die a thousand deaths!

And they say all the dinosaurs have died out! They don't freak me out too much but our neighbours say one turns up sometimes in the spring in our back yards and I sure would not want to see him there.

How's your bad boy roo situation, MB?

Katrina

 

[nakstk]

ConGrats! on the egg KacklinKelly! Great to hear more peoples birds have started laying. I got 3 eggs today. Still only 1 maybe 2 of my SS hens are laying. This is the 5th month of their molting/winter vacation. I think it's time to get back to work now.

MB look how close we are to 2000 posts. we are getting so close!

 

[CatSol]

OMG OMG OMG - Please join me in a celebratory DANCE!!

This is the song I heard when I found my first ever egg in the chicken coop today!!

Will post photo as soon as my cell phone charges.

Thanks for waiting for me to catch up and handling my venting. You are the
best!

Congrats!

Congrats!

 

[CatSol]

HOLY _RAP!!!

If I saw that any where near me I would die a thousand deaths!

We have small lizards and a few garden snakes out here... but nothing like that! I think that would kind of freak me out as well...

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Here is the Lace Monitor lizard mooching around our campsite. He would have been after the meat we had or the eggs we brought with us kindly donated by our chickens. Seeing him so close up and bold made me very relieved we have a totally enclosed run for the chickens!




They're not great photos, sorry. He managed to steal a bag of bread rolls when we first arrived and not fast enough in our response. They are not especially dangerous to humans but if cornered they can give a nasty scratch with those claws or bites that turn bad. There is a lot of wild birds at this site too and they created a tremendous racket of alarm calls whenever they spotted it. No doubt they have bitter experience of them stealing eggs and chicks. It meant we always knew when he was approaching our supplies!

May your patience soon be rewarded with eggs, everyone

Katrina

Wow! What a cool lizard! Glad I don't have to worry about keeping those out of our coop. So now I'm kind of curious. What sorts of predators do you have to deal with on a regular basis in Australia?