Debbie's Silkies

[TwoCrows]

Thank you, Fluffy, I'm getting there. I'm starting to wonder if this wasn't Covid. Doesn't matter as I went nowhere anyway but this "cold" sure took me for a loop! Nine days of a horrible chest cold.

Being sick is the pits! Hopefully you've turned the corner now Debbie.

 

[fluffycrow]

OK sooo silkie peeps! I need your expertise. Ursula has this annoying habit of kicking all the straw/hay out of the nest box every day, because she tries to find morsels in it to eat. Problem is, it's the SAME hay. She's already test nibbled everything there is to test nibble. Problem number two, there's eggs in the damn hay. Problem number three, she's teaching the Cruella kids to do the same! Sooo, is it a universal silkie/silkie mix issue, or is this...girl...just very dumb

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[Debbie292d]

Being sick is the pits! Hopefully you've turned the corner now Debbie.

It is! I think we all don't mind a cold that lasts a couple of days, but this one was rediculous! I am feeling quite a bit better, thank you!

 

[Debbie292d]

OK sooo silkie peeps! I need your expertise. Ursula has this annoying habit of kicking all the straw/hay out of the nest box every day, because she tries to find morsels in it to eat. Problem is, it's the SAME hay. She's already test nibbled everything there is to test nibble. Problem number two, there's eggs in the damn hay. Problem number three, she's teaching the Cruella kids to do the same! Sooo, is it a universal silkie/silkie mix issue, or is this...girl...just very dumbView attachment 3772172?

One reason we switched to pellets in the coop. In the temp coop I'm going to have to as well as they kick it all out and lay eggs on plywood anyway.

 

[Nomadicus]

I wonder now if mine will kick all the pine straw out looking for what isn't there....?

 

[fluffycrow]

One reason we switched to pellets in the coop. In the temp coop I'm going to have to as well as they kick it all out and lay eggs on plywood anyway.

OK so it sort of is a universal silkie thing. I swear this one's got me questioning her braincell capacity daily...

 

[fluffycrow]

I wonder now if mine will kick all the pine straw out looking for what isn't there....?

I hope they don't. It's such a pain! When she went broody, she had a tiny nest. When she broke to start co-mothering Cruella's chicks, this is what she was working with

 

[2ndTink]

OK sooo silkie peeps! I need your expertise. Ursula has this annoying habit of kicking all the straw/hay out of the nest box every day, because she tries to find morsels in it to eat. Problem is, it's the SAME hay. She's already test nibbled everything there is to test nibble. Problem number two, there's eggs in the damn hay. Problem number three, she's teaching the Cruella kids to do the same! Sooo, is it a universal silkie/silkie mix issue, or is this...girl...just very dumbView attachment 3772172?

I haven't seen them picking in it, but they do wallow it all around and then manage to lay eggs directly into the wood and occasionally break them

 

[Debbie292d]

I haven't seen them picking in it, but they do wallow it all around and then manage to lay eggs storied directly into the wood and occasionally break them

Try taking it out and put pellets in there. They dig a little to make themselves comfy is all but it all stays right there!

 

[janiedoe]

Debbie this is one of yours that thinks he is Big Stuff. The again it might be a she that things she is queen of the world.
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Gorgeous color!