Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

That’s one possibility. I crush the shells and feed them back to the chooks

be careful with 'crushing the shells' with these. With the heat you are having, you might not want to do that...if they are rotten, girls could get sick, and you might get nauseous on the rotten egg smell....

 

[RoyalChick]

Bury them in the compost pile. If you don't have such a thing, you can bury them in the dirt next to a shrub or a tomato plant. (Hold your nose put them in the pot and smoosh them, then quickly cover, if putting in a pot with a tomato plant...and be sure they are buried! ...then cover the soil in pot with a few rocks so chick don't dig them up. If burying in the ground or compost...dig deep enough your chooks won't scratch them up out of their 'resting place'.

FYI: calcium is good for plants - needed for cell walls....and help tomatoes in particular not get 'blossom end rot'.

I'm a strong believer in reduce/reuses/recycle. However, if you aren't up for the composting/burying, then gently throw them in an old plastic grocery bag, knot the top, and place in trash. Don't want to to have to eggs-acuate your home due to rotten egg smell.

Wow have only had a few but I just tossed them in the compost heap. What is the burying for?
Oh, is it to keep the chickens away?

 

[Marie2020]

Thanks

Only expressing what I feel
You have animals straight from heaven

 

[bgmathteach]

Bernadette’s mugshot for Monday. She has started on her comb and wattles finally!
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Well, you know, the legs were hard work...other things had to wait!

 

[bgmathteach]

Wow have only had a few but I just tossed them in the compost heap. What is the burying for?
Oh, is it to keep the chickens away?

The burying is in case they are bad, so chicks (or wild scavengers) don't get into them and leave your yard smelling horribly of rotten eggs!

...ask me how I know this can happen.....​

Crushing is actually best., then composting ..but I wouldn't suggest that to Alex since with that many eggs, some have definitely been there a while - coupled with the heat wave, that is a recipe for malodorous 'orbs of power'!

 

[bgmathteach]

Tina hasn't laid today or she is hiding hers to

Remember, the girls lay less when it is really hot - the heat stresses them. It usually takes a couple of days after the heat has started for this to show in the egg basket, due to the fact that some eggs are already 'primed' and enlarging, as they get ready to 'move on out', so really it takes 2-4 days after onset of heat to realize the true effects of it on egg production. I had 0ne group of hens who were regularly laying 14-16 eggs a day...with this heat they have dropped down to 7-8 daily! (and no, there really isn't a place for them to 'hide them' in their run....

 

[Marie2020]

Remember, the girls lay less when it is really hot - the heat stresses them. It usually takes a couple of days after the heat has started for this to show in the egg basket, due to the fact that some eggs are already 'primed' and enlarging, as they get ready to 'move on out', so really it takes 2-4 days after onset of heat to realize the true effects of it on egg production. I had 0ne group of hens who were regularly laying 14-16 eggs a day...with this heat they have dropped down to 7-8 daily! (and no, there really isn't a place for them to 'hide them' in their run....

Tina was held in a cage until she was 18 months Agatha was well over two. I believe that is why Agatha died so soon. Tina has missed on the odd day but seems really healthy. She's come into her own lately but was like princess affected by the loss of both of our girls. Tina is having a good old time now and I'm hoping the less she lays the longer she will survive.

Princess I'm more worried about she has never laid a lot of eggs but I think she's grieving especially for flexi, she cried for days when Agatha died but this quietness in her now is concerning me. She wouldn't leave flexi until she was fully buried.

I am treating her for scaly legs they are almost clear now. But tomorrow I'm going to make sure she has the biggest cuddle, she's not the cuddling sort but I'm making sure she knows she is loved. There will be corn on the cob again tomorrow because she absolutely loves it.

On the hotest day I brought them inside. But the heat really got too them Tina in particular

 

[Marie2020]

Alex I hope those are fires not your way. Or anyone else here in the surrounding area's

 

[Ponypoor]

Only expressing what I feel
You have animals straight from heaven

Until they decide to be rotten little devils

Like Sally who played catch me if you can….

Or Buttercup who likes to pick on the broodies!

 

[Ponypoor]

The burying is in case they are bad, so chicks (or wild scavengers) don't get into them and leave your yard smelling horribly of rotten eggs!

...ask me how I know this can happen.....​

Crushing is actually best., then composting ..but I wouldn't suggest that to Alex since with that many eggs, some have definitely been there a while - coupled with the heat wave, that is a recipe for malodorous 'orbs of power'!

Go for it Alex!! But video as your breaking them open