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Red, that's amazing.. and very artistic! I am so happy to see your posts again! Please stick around! How is Lemon doing??
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Red, that's amazing.. and very artistic! I am so happy to see your posts again! Please stick around! How is Lemon doing??
Yes, entirely possible! I have been seeing the colors changing quite a bit through the course of a week, then they skip a day, and seem to store up on printer ink again! I also have someone whose eggs seem to be getting smaller... what's up with that?Okay, Melabella -
I don't know if you remember a while back we were discussing the light brown vs. the darker brown eggs and I thought that my two BR girls were laying the 2 light ones since it seemed like I got more of those and assumed that my RIR was laying the darker brown... Well, this is really weird.
I saw my BR lay a dark brown one! So, is it possible that one of my BR and my RIR both lay light colored and one of the BR lays dark? I am so confused!!
Also, ditto on the taxes - I have to get mine done in the next couple days or my tax guy won't have time to finish them up.
I added the crushed egg shells in with the oyster shell. I bought 2 cups that were made for cages, I think small animals cups are what they are called, made of metal with hooks on the back. I hang them inside their run since I don't have room inside the coop, covered and out of the weather, one has oyster shell the other has grit. It works well, they used to knock them off every once in a while but now they just eat out of them when they want some and leave them alone. I noticed my partridge plymouth eats more oyster than anyone else.Don't put it in their feed, too much calcium is bad for their kidneys. Just offer it free choice. What I did was bought an 8 ft piece of PVC pipe 2 inch inside diameter (I think is what it is) and two 90 degree elbows, two end caps and a roll of ducting hanger tape stuff. I cut one piece 1 foot long and the other 20 inches the 1 foot piece I used a Dremel tool and cut a rectangular hole in it and rounded and sanded the edges. Then just put them together in the L shape they work fine. I have them in the coop one has grit and one has oyster and egg shells.
Went out and took a pic please excuse their mess.
I have become quite adept at this problem as Australia suffered serious heat waves here during my very first summer of keeping chickens. (mostly around 30C/90F, but several days got to 44C/112F). It's a relief in many ways we are now cooling into a mild autumn. Here's my top tips:I started to think about how I was going to keep them cool this summer. ?? We have a very large yard but little shady spots so where I am moving them to is going to be sunny most of the day. I have a few ideas on how to create some shade but was wondering, how do we keep them cool and comfortable in the hot/humid summer days & nights. Everyone laid 4 eggs today, that's 2 days in a row now.