How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[mommiesrcool]

Sammie, eeeewwwww.

Well, I saw a thread that said checking their pelvic bone is reliable and it'll tell you if they are close to laying.

 

[mommiesrcool]

Give her time she will lay. I will ask how many birds do you have Please?

I started out with 4 ( 3 RIR 1 EE) pullets from TSC 1 RIR died at 2 weeks old from unknown causes and the EE died at 4 weeks old because of a raccoon. At the time I had a meat hen and I had to take her friend away so I got some chicks because meaties do not lay eggs and she didn't like the chicks so the chicks slept in a dog crate outside inside a fenced-in area and I had some areas in my fence where a raccoon could fit threw and it killed the poor thing. RIP Easter the EE and Red the RIR

 

[pennyJo1960]

So Please do you have more than one. Birds are social creatures. The only wire safe is hardware cloth they cannot reach through it

 

[mommiesrcool]

So Please do you have more than one. Birds are social creatures. The only wire safe is hardware cloth they cannot reach through it

i have 2 but I would've had 4 if all these things didn't happen but the chicks were in a dog crate without a wire so it was very easy for the raccoon to get the chicks out but I didn't think anything would happen because I had never seen a raccoon but my parents said there was one every night in our garbage can but I never believed them

 

[mommiesrcool]

the chicks at the time were small but they couldn't fit threw the wire unless someone or something would forcefully prie them out

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hardware cloth

 

[mommiesrcool]

So Please do you have more than one. Birds are social creatures. The only wire safe is hardware cloth they cannot reach through it

this is the coop that have, I regret buying it and I wish I would've spent the 300 on building one myself

 

[Anne02]

14 and 1/2 eggs out of 25 hens and pullets.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Cannot see but looks like it has field wire on it .. Any like that are tough but for two you're fine but have a to get a roll of hardware cloth all the way around it

 

[SnootyHen]

14 and 1/2 eggs out of 25 hens and pullets.

Half?