Easter Egger club!

[cmccullough1390]

Gallina and Catalina are beautiful, by the way I love your chickies!

Thank you they're lots of fun and both Gallina and Catalina fit right in almost immediately

 

[Spyruby]

my girls just started laying beautiful green and blue eggs! but i have one question.... how do i stop egg eating because sometimes they tend to lay eggs at nigh and go out to the coop let them out and there is a yoke in the coop. any answers on how to stop egg eating?

 

[cmccullough1390]

my girls just started laying beautiful green and blue eggs! but i have one question.... how do i stop egg eating because sometimes they tend to lay eggs at nigh and go out to the coop let them out and there is a yoke in the coop. any answers on how to stop egg eating?

The only thing I've seen that's successful is rollaway nesting boxes

 

[junebuggena]

Eggs that break or are shell less are fair game. It doesn't mean you have egg eaters on your hands.

 

[Amelia Egghart]

Could just be habit at this point, might have started out of boredom. Barred Rocks do tend to get bored when kept confined.

They have free roam of an acre with several places they frequent during their day. But yeah, it might have started as actual grooming but morphed. They each do the same beard preening to the other EEE but that one has a fluffy, clean beard. The EE with the issue has always had a dirty, sticky beard. She must be getting into fruit or something.

Regardless, the behavior needs to be interrupted. We were thinking of washing her face really well and putting something bitter over the affected area?

 

[Amelia Egghart]

Oh, and looking for whatever she's getting into. There were some wild berries I found and ripped out recently.

 

[MamaDoolittle]

Is it likely that a 19 1/2 week old EE could have laid her first egg? Very small and white egg.

 

[cmccullough1390]

Is it likely that a 19 1/2 week old EE could have laid her first egg?  Very small and white egg.  

Very possible it's common for first eggs to be small

 

[FlyWheel]

There was a new egg color in the nesting box today. I'm hoping against hope it's Braveheart's and she just forgot to 'paint' it, because it was white (actually a light cream).

7 Easter egger chicks and all I get is one light bluish green egg layer?

P.S. What happened to the rich text editor? I'm getting a 'not compatible wit your browser' message on both Chrome and Opera.

 

[poppycock1974]

There was a new egg color in the nesting box today. I'm hoping against hope it's Braveheart's and she just forgot to 'paint' it, because it was white (actually a light cream).

7 Easter egger chicks and all I get is one light bluish green egg layer?

P.S. What happened to the rich text editor? I'm getting a 'not compatible wit your browser' message on both Chrome and Opera.

My only EE laid a pretty blue her first day, light green second day and light brown from then on.

I wanted them to stay blue