Easter Egger club!

[Scrambles55]

My husband, who did not want chickens, will call me at work to tell me who is on the nest, who laid an egg and who is singing the egg song. Its pretty comical. Then, when we are around family or friends... he complains about the chickens.

Always trying to be the tough guy. He also complains about the cats, yet he will cook Snickers her own special piece of fish. Snickers likes spicy fish.
Men.... gotta love em.

 

[insanity]

Sounds like my DH...."I hate dogs.We aren't getting a dog" a year later "I only gave her a little cheese. Of course shes on the couch,where else should she sleep?"

 

[Scrambles55]

 

[Katt66]

Mine's the same way. He was brought up that the only animal worth having was one that earned it's keep.
He always had Beagles and English Setters. All were family pets but also hunted. And he had no use whatsoever for cats.
Dogs weren't allowed on the furniture and slept in their kennels at night. That was seventeen years ago.
Today he'll be sitting in the living room watching a movie with our 14 yr old with a cat on his lap and at least two dogs on the couch beside him. He's heading upstairs to take a nap right now before work. There will be a German Shorthair curled up behind his knees, a Brittany Spaniel beside him sharing the pillow and a Pit Bull Terrier curled up in front of him... all under the covers as well. XD

He grumbles about the chickens all the time. But he'll go outside for a smoke and I'll catch him watching them pick around the yard or over peeking in the coop to see who's doing what in the nest boxes. They're so tough on the outside but big cuddly bears on the inside. ^_^

 

[Gryphon]

My guy ends up feeding my girls oatmeal cream pies! Teryx in particular goes nuts over them because of him. >_<

 

[chick rookie]

I agree treats=eggs at least for my girls. I've came home from work late gave treats went back out to lock up and found a thank you egg.

My girls aint that fast... wow... I have to wait 24v hours for my thank you eggs...

but I like it when I get them.

I am getting from 10 to 14 a day right now, the days I get 14 is the day after I gave them warm oatmeal, so I started yesterday giving them that every morning... see what happens, I also am going to try something,I have a hen that my Roo liked a little too much and she is now a baldy... and the other hens were picking on her.so I brought her in to get a break a recoup for a few days. When I put her back out I was going to put her in the Barn with Big Man and his sm group of girls, bbut now she has gone broody, she is almost three and she has never gone broody before??? but anyway I am testing her and if she holds true I'm going to put a few eggs under her and see what happens. if she would hatch me out some EE's I would jump up and down....

if she does then I wont have to buy more...

 

[hosspak]

My girls aint that fast... wow... I have to wait 24v hours for my thank you eggs...

but I like it when I get them.

I am getting from 10 to 14 a day right now, the days I get 14 is the day after I gave them warm oatmeal, so I started yesterday giving them that every morning...

I would be interested to see how that works for you. My flock seemed to slow down when I gave them too much people food treats. I give them people food treats once a week, and I have to jump out of the way. (Feeding frenzie) I have made up several different treats made from layer pellets, scratch, rabbit pellets, BOSS, and wild bird seed. Baked into muffins and mini bread loaves. This has increased production during the winter months and they seem to think they are treats....WIN/WIN!

 

[CarolinaHen]

I have a little cockerel that is a cross between a green egg laying EE and an Appenzeller (they lay white eggs). He has slate colored legs and a pea comb. The question is whether or not he will produce pullets that lay tinted eggs if he is crossed back to another EE. Have any of you tried such a cross? I believe he should pass on the blue egg gene to at least 75% of his offspring since the blue egg gene is dominant.

 

[Gryphon]

With those characteristics it's likely he has a copy of blue (not 100% though, there are cases where pea comb and muffs get passes on without the blue gene, just as a small percentage can get the blue gene minus muffs and comb) but we'll assume that he's got one copy went with him. I'f he's crossed with hens that have only one copy of blue, then yes any pullets will 75% be EE. If they have two copies then all pullets will lay tinted eggs.

If I remember right, crossing a green egger to a white can help "clean up" the egg, making it a purer blue since that can help scrub the brown away.

 

[AlpineButterfly]

I would be interested to see how that works for you. My flock seemed to slow down when I gave them too much people food treats. I give them people food treats once a week, and I have to jump out of the way. (Feeding frenzie) I have made up several different treats made from layer pellets, scratch, rabbit pellets, BOSS, and wild bird seed. Baked into muffins and mini bread loaves. This has increased production during the winter months and they seem to think they are treats....WIN/WIN!

I think part of the "treat" concept is just that I am giving them something not in their normal feeder (which is always available)... Like you, I sometimes make little "scones" with layer pellets, egg, etc. I also sometimes mix pellets with water and some BOSS or scratch. My girls will come running even if I just put dry layer pellets in the bowl I use for these "treats"! Silly chickens!