getting those stubborn girls to start laying AGAIN!!!!!

[gmc]

I guess a pepper tasting egg is better than no egg at all, right? I usally pepper mine anyways....

 

[picklespickles]

we used to put cayenne pepper in our socks to warm our feet. lol. it did help.

 

[redwa]

Our older hens (1.5 years) stopped laying in the fall when they molted (one stopped laying when we got rid of the rooster) and the new ones from this past year had not started laying. I was very confused and frustrated. One of the inmates I work with at San Quentin who use to raise chix as a child said it was because they needed a rooster. I didn't believe it but we had the opportunity to get another roo. Don't ya know, they started laying within the first week of having him and I have been getting 6-8 eggs/day since out of 10 hens. And the temps have been rather cold at night. Go figure.

 

[newnanchic]

The pepper does not change the taste of the eggs!!!!! However it does work!!! We have snow here in Ga. right now and still got 6 eggs yersterday. Try it you will only spend 2 bucks on 4 bottles and 1 dozen eggs will cost you that these days at Kroger.

 

[newnanchic]

Any more takers on this theroy???

 

[Wildsky]

If I had any I'd try it - too dang far from a store!

 

[nccountrygirl]

I think I'm going to try it, I will let y'all know how it goes.

 

[hencackle]

Guilty here...I added dried red pepper flakes to their food a few years back. It worked, I got some eggs in time for the holiday baking. I was told the pepper "heats up the hens from the inside so they lay."

 

[blugrsnrs]

Ihaven't had any eggs since before thanksgiving, so i am definitely going to try it. I live in upstate ny and its been cold and dark here for a long time. I am also going to try the rooster thing as i have 7 from a broody hen last summer. I'll let you know. Wanda

 

[newnanchic]

I bake and decorate cakes from home and my eggs are the secret to my cakes everyone ask what I do different to my cakes and all i do is use "home grown" eggs. Even with the snow in Georgia we still got 6 eggs that day and we have not seen snow in Newnan Georgia in years!!!!!