Hello, my name is HR and I'm a newbie....

[HR Patterson]

OK just wondering if some breeds were better/worse than others, sounds like it's all the same. My Dane is indifferent unless I instruct her to chase one back in.

 

[hencackle]

Welcome to BYC, HR. If the golf ball trick doesn't stop the egg eating, you can blow out an egg and refill it with yellow mustard. Hot sauce won't work as chickens can't taste it--birds don't have receptors on their tongues for capsaicin. They can taste (and don't like) the mustard.

 

[MissPrissy]

Welcome, HR. Glad to meet you.

 

[HR Patterson]

Thank you hencackle, I had heard the hotsauce tip, but didn't know they can't taste it.

 

[HenHaven]

HR, Welcome to the forum! Nice looking flock!

You know, egg eating is hard to break, but there is a type of nestbox, where the eggs roll away from the chicken's reach. I think they are called roll out or roll away nestboxes. If I had a large flock with that problem, that's one thing I would do. A good diet, darkened nesting areas, avoiding overcrowding and stress will all help as well. Hope you get the problem solved.

 

[HR Patterson]

Hello Miss Prissy. I see alot of you on the board, but haven't seen a list of how many and what you have for numbers and breeds. Just curious

 

[hensdeliverthegoods]

Welcome to the forum - your flock and particularly your rooster is lovely! I'd reccommend a herding breed of dog, they'd guard your flock and be a very loving and loyal family dog.

 

[HR Patterson]

OK, so dark colored boxes are better for laying, right now I am lining them with hay (at $2 a bale vs. $6 for straw) I haven't been able to locate a thread for the "deep Bedding" method that I come across, can someone post a link or explaination. And does it work better?

 

[sunnychooks]

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Do you mean Deep Litter Method? Do a search and you'll come up with lots of info.

Welcome!!!

 

[MissPrissy]

Well, let's see here -

My main laying flock is an assortment. I have been downsizing the last few months to make room for spring hatching so I have gotten rid of many many pullets and a couple of cockerals. We finished up 27 meat birds we raised through the fall last month and before that culled 11 cockerals from my spring chicks. I have rehomed many birds and have thinned my flock considerably.

I have 1 barred rock cockeral in my main hen house. Under his supervision lives -

4 barred rocks
5 cuckoo marans
5 buff orpingtons
5 rhode island red
4 partridge rocks
5 white wyandottes
5 black jersey giants

I also have a pair of blue orpingtons from TuffOldHen's flock in their own coop.

I have 24 blue/black/splash and buff orp eggs in my bator.

I am waiting for April when I will recieve many more eggs.

Ummm last year we raised our own Thanksgiving turkeys, I keep guineas and have a small herd of dairy goats from which I make cheese and yogurt and ice cream and butter milk and sour cream and all sorts of things including but not limited to homemade soaps.

What else can I tell you?

Hmmm - I have had my hands on chickens for at least the last 20 years or so.

Nice to meet you, again.