How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[Blooie]

I got a whole dozen....at the grocery store. My chickens are only 9 weeks old...hope to motivate them with an empty tub of KFC....

Since my Cuckoo Marans appear to be hybrids, a little bit Barred Rocks somewhere in there, not sure when they will begin to do their duty. They are sleeping in the nesting boxes instead of on their roosting poles. Slackers!

You might want to firmly discourage that sleeping in the nest boxes! Do whatever you have to do short of a cattle prod to get them out and keep them out. They'll get so used to sleeping in there that they'll lay everywhere they can squat long enough EXCEPT in the nest boxes. It also leads to poopy eggs if they do lay in there. Cover the nest boxes until you find that first egg, then uncover nests and put some dummy eggs - golf balls, wooden or ceramic eggs - in the boxes so they get the idea.

We got 8/9+Scout+Littles+Tinys today.

 

[Oliver Douglas]

Will block it off with some cardboard, thanks for the insight. Gotten a little spoiled, they have. All FOUR of them were huddling in there, including the rooster. Getting a little too chummy, in my estimation. Tomorrow my son and I will finish up wiring the bottom of the coop with some hardware cloth and they will be spending their first night in the coop without me dragging their feathered butts inside the house in their brooder. Since they are young, they hopefully will figure out was the ROOSTING poles are for. Maybe I got dumb ones...beats me. But then, none of them registered high on their SAT's. Kept missing geometry and algebra questions. How hard is A plus B equals C? Or the transitive property? Glad I saved the money and didn't send them to college....

 

[Blooie]

It'll take 'em a while to figure out the roosts. At first they'll huddle together in a pile of feathers, feet and beaks. You could, I suppose, do what most folks do and put them up on the roost every night after dark until they get the idea. But mine ain't the brightest crayons in the box either and after several nights of doing that someone told me not to worry about it - they'd do it when they were ready. I liked that advice. Sure enough, they figured it out on their own. Now the Littles learned from the Bigs so I didn't even sweat it with these chicks. And the Tinys will probably learn from the Littles. All I know is I am DONE trying to teach them how to chicken!

 

[nickdlny]

Will block it off with some cardboard, thanks for the insight. Gotten a little spoiled, they have. All FOUR of them were huddling in there, including the rooster. Getting a little too chummy, in my estimation. Tomorrow my son and I will finish up wiring the bottom of the coop with some hardware cloth and they will be spending their first night in the coop without me dragging their feathered butts inside the house in their brooder. Since they are young, they hopefully will figure out was the ROOSTING poles are for. Maybe I got dumb ones...beats me. But then, none of them registered high on their SAT's. Kept missing geometry and algebra questions. How hard is A plus B equals C? Or the transitive property? Glad I saved the money and didn't send them to college....

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Lol you definitely got dumb ones. I love my chickens and all chickens (they taste great). They are just not wildly intelligent creatures. It's one of the things I find endearing about them.

 

[Oliver Douglas]

Well, mine are geniuses....they know what it takes to pull my chain. If it weren't for watermelon rinds, thrown into their tractor, they would rule the world...but their stomachs overcome their intelligence...oh, look, a snack! Run, eat!

 

[nickdlny]

Well, mine are geniuses....they know what it takes to pull my chain. If it weren't for watermelon rinds, thrown into their tractor, they would rule the world...but their stomachs overcome their intelligence...oh, look, a snack! Run, eat!

Loll!!! It's seems like we may be saying the same thing. I'm not willing to suggest that mine could ever rule the world though. I watched one chase a moth around for 5 minutes today--definitely burned more calories chasing the moth than she would have gotten from the moth if she would have caught it.

 

[blueseal]

saturday 8 from 11 5 white, 2 brown, 1 green,

sunday 10 from 11 5 white, 3 brown, 2 green,

 

[Spartan22]

6 + 1 got eaten by the chicken not sure who broke it.

 

[nbaisden]

Hit an all time high today with my ladies. I got 4 eggs from 5 chickens. Pretty excited!

 

[TJordan]

Loll!!! It's seems like we may be saying the same thing. I'm not willing to suggest that mine could ever rule the world though. I watched one chase a moth around for 5 minutes today--definitely burned more calories chasing the moth than she would have gotten from the moth if she would have caught it.

poor girl ....
I understand though. My silly girls chased a piece of grass around today for almost 10 mins. One would grab it, another would steal it and around they would go.