Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[satay]

Todays haul.from left to right. Dbl yolker from my big aussie 89gms another aussie egg 59gms ara egg 49gms bantam wyandotte egg 41gms gold spangled hamburgs 1st egg 34gms. Go girls!

Wow you are doing well, That's a nice haul of eggs.

 

[satay]

At least they were good enough to give you a hint that it was time for an egg hunt by laying just outside the door. 

I probably would not of noticed and the dogs would have ate them. Seems teenage sons do have a use after all

 

[K Spot]

Todays haul.from left to right. Dbl yolker from my big aussie 89gms another aussie egg 59gms ara egg 49gms bantam wyandotte egg 41gms gold spangled hamburgs 1st egg 34gms. Go girls!

I got 7 from my girls yesterday

 

[flocking-crazy]

89gms Do you have emus? I though my isa Browns laying the occasional 72gm egg was good. Well done. What is an Aussie bwt?

 

[Anniebee]

Seems the weather is really stuffing with my poor chickens at the moment. My pekins have never laid over winter. I got 2 eggs a week or so ago and then nothing since. My son yesterday was in the kitchen and said mum why are there eggs on the ground out there? I looked said dunno. He went and looked and there was 2 pekin eggs outside the back door and 9 more hidden in the garden. Cheeky girls.

Two of my girls, when they are laying ( which they are not at present - moults and very chilly winter with grey days ) .... have often deliberately ( well I think it's deliberate ) hidden their eggs under the straw they lay eggs on. .... Sometimes they don't bother, other times, I have to dig around for the eggs - and they do a good job of hiding them. ... Have often wondered why they bother to go to all that trouble ? There's no broodiness displaying, when this has happened. .... Spring will find out if they return to the game of 'hide the egg' !!! ... At least I hope Spring brings some laying of eggs back into being.

Cheers -
Anniebee.

 

[cwrite]

Todays haul.from left to right. Dbl yolker from my big aussie 89gms another aussie egg 59gms ara egg 49gms bantam wyandotte egg 41gms gold spangled hamburgs 1st egg 34gms. Go girls!

That is a good haul & such pretty colours too! My slackers only laid one egg today. Although I can't really complain seeing as they didn't take a complete break.

 

[Anniebee]

I've had a couple of my girls wanting to sleep in the nest boxes.
My solution was to enclose the boxes in the afternoon/evening so they cannot use them to sleep and uncover them in the morning. They got the hint in a few days and was able to discontinue with cordoning off the boxes.

Hi K-Spot

Long has it intrigued me, that so many chicken owners talk about roosting, and where a chicken sleeps being so important. ...

As I have mentioned before, my little Araucana has always roosted - on a towelling covered sideways brick, which is on top of her laying box, and the highest she can get in her coop. The 'brick' thing came about quite by accident. !!

My two big girls took 2 years to learn how to roost ?? .... I didn't push the point, and did not try to place them on the roost. .... They now do both - roost on the railing comfortably, AND on very cold nights, snuggle up to one another in what was kindly made by my husband, as 'nesting boxes'.

Well - except for about 4 'mistakes' ( with no bedding - they turf it out of the nesting boxes to expose bare boards ) ... they have never used the nesting / laying boxes for laying. ... Instead they have a straw nest - in front of the nesting boxes, in which to lay ( when laying ). If I put straw in the nesting boxes, they kick it out immediately - arranging it all just so, in front of the boxes, .... and there they lay their eggs. For a week or so here and there, they both might hide the eggs in the straw, but get sick of that game after a while - then resume it again. .... Have asked elsewhere, why chickens 'hide' eggs ??

I think maybe, I have very weird chooks. !!

 

[cwrite]

I went out to lunch today & my daughter spotted a silkie quietly puttering around the garden of the house next to the restaurant. I still can't get over how well behaved it was. If my flock lived next to a restaurant that had a balcony in full view of the garden all 7 of them would be lined up & shrieking for food every time someone stepped out onto the balcony area. Then they would have hopped over that little fence and chased off the seagulls & every other bird on the beach over the road - defending their extended patch.
OK, the silkie may not be able to get over the fence, but surely it has noticed the FOOD being eaten next door. My chickens even know the sound of the garage door means I'm home & therefore available to be 'called' outside to provide treats.

I wonder if I can drop my flock off there for a bit of training.

 

[1340busa]

e  I got 7 from my girls yesterday

I got 5 yesterday. New to BYC. I have two that are "a cross between a black sex link and Silverlace blue Wyandot, one gold sex link, one barred rock, and one black Australorpe. Sadly though, I lost my white leghorn several months ago. She was my double yolker.

 

[cwrite]

I got 5 yesterday. New to BYC. I have two that are "a cross between a black sex link and Silverlace blue Wyandot, one gold sex link, one barred rock, and one black Australorpe. Sadly though, I lost my white leghorn several months ago. She was my double yolker.

Sorry about the loss of your leghorn. Sounds like you have a lovely mixed flock.

1340busa!