How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Boy they sure are brave! Maybe my 4 dogs and 2 geese make them have second thoughts. My egg eaters are the Blk snakes

No snakes here anymore! They have all been mistaken for yummy worms and eaten by Blanca Duck…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Seven eggs today! - Fodder is working its magic.

 

[Miss Lydia]

No snakes here anymore! They have all been mistaken for yummy worms and eaten by Blanca Duck…

Would she eat a 5-6' one?

 

[Marie2020]

Do you have a local crow population? Remember my thread Dear crows, this means war‼ from this summer, i had crows sneaking into the duck-house, breaking the egg shells and drinking the content.

We had a lot if crows this year but I haven't seen them around my little ones at all.

They are tucked into the coup earlier now due to it getting dark after 4.30 so will be laying less. But the one being the largest often gets pushed around by one of the girls when food is around, I always make sure she has her share. I think this is the one taking her eggs

Thank you for your reply

 

[Marie2020]

So you have an egg eater? Not an easy fix. I had a chicken hen who was an egg eater. I had to stay a step ahead of her and make sure to pick up every egg early. And check many times a day for late layer eggs

What is upsetting me is that she's only taking them from princess, whose the most timid.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Would she eat a 5-6' one?

She would team up with her sister Earthquack, both would enlist the newbies Fluffy and Flauschi and then call in the murder-crows for reinforcement. It would be a real mess!

I have no idea how they would react to a really large snake, but remember Blanca took on a ~3' snake last year! If that girl is hungry, anything can happen…

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mine will give a very wide birth to a really long blk snake. But young ones get scarfed up quick.

1 tiny bantam chicken egg today.

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Mine will give a very wide birth to a really long blk snake. But young ones get scarfed up quick.

1 tiny bantam chicken egg today.

May I ask what you use the bantam eggs for?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Eating a baking I just use 3 for reg size egg. This is a Cochin bantam her egg is a tad larger than my OEGB hen. Still taste good.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Seven egg, one of them the size of a small goose-egg.