There is a strong chance that krinkle cut frickles dipped in ranch would change you on this. Just sayin.... But stay away from the spears!I don't like pickled cucumber
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There is a strong chance that krinkle cut frickles dipped in ranch would change you on this. Just sayin.... But stay away from the spears!I don't like pickled cucumber
I'm out there checking every hour because they seem to like to peck holes in the eggs, so I'm trying to catch it right away, but they're so irregular - it's exciting and maddening all at the same time!
That's the only way I'd eat a cucumber. Pickled, or none at all.I don't like pickled cucumber
I've burned my mouth, many times, but more so with soup then anything else for some reason.The roof of my mouth blistered immediately, and I could only drink Mai Tai's for days after....
This is really good info, thank you! I do have thick nesting pads in the nest boxes, but only one of the 7 eggs - the one with the big hole - has been laid in the nest box. The 2 perfect pullet eggs I got were both laid in the corner of the run.Are your nests well bedded, never bare floor that they lay eggs on? I've noticed that a lot of the damage people assume is a peck is actually in my experience from an egg hitting the floor too hard and cracking slightly, then the air cell forms and pulls the shell in a bit so there's a hole. This is what that looks like (not my picture, google images to the rescue there!).
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Actual egg pecking tends to leave a large opening and little or no contents remaining within the egg--if that's what you're seeing, then yes, that's pecking for sure. The only real solution to that is what you're doing, collecting the eggs as often as possible to prevent it, or you could install roll-away nest boxes so that the eggs roll out of reach before they can be pecked.
I had a hen that would move eggs roughly, & make a dent just like that with her beak.Are your nests well bedded, never bare floor that they lay eggs on? I've noticed that a lot of the damage people assume is a peck is actually in my experience from an egg hitting the floor too hard and cracking slightly, then the air cell forms and pulls the shell in a bit so there's a hole. This is what that looks like (not my picture, google images to the rescue there!).
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Actual egg pecking tends to leave a large opening and little or no contents remaining within the egg--if that's what you're seeing, then yes, that's pecking for sure. The only real solution to that is what you're doing, collecting the eggs as often as possible to prevent it, or you could install roll-away nest boxes so that the eggs roll out of reach before they can be pecked.
This is really good info, thank you! I do have thick nesting pads in the nest boxes, but only one of the 7 eggs - the one with the big hole - has been laid in the nest box. The 2 perfect pullet eggs I got were both laid in the corner of the run.
This one was in the nest box:
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This one was in the back corner of the coop:
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The other 3 were soft shelled and laid on the poop board some time overnight (or VERY early a.m.).
The shells feel pretty normal, perhaps a little thin, but not abnormally so (except for the ones on the poop board, lol).How did the shell feel on these, good and thick or a little bit more fragile than a normal eggshell after cracking it?
This is very possible. These are my very first chickens, so I don't have anything to compare it to (other than store-bought eggs).I wonder if they're weaker-shelled just because the birds are new at laying and not gotten the 'formula' down yet
That's what I keep thinking! Like, if they had pecked the eggs, they would've eaten the whole darn thing! But it sure looks like they're pecking them.I imagine if they pecked that opening in the first picture that they wouldn't have left the contents of the egg.
What's everyone having for dinner tonight?
Bean Soup is what we're having.
Keeping my fingers crossed that all of these oddities will work themselves out once all of their systems are "online" and eggs are just a regular part of their day. Right now, eggs are still pretty novel to these gals!