I had to buy store bought eggs AHHHH!!!!

[kezabel]

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What does cayyen pepper do?

 

[Mahonri]

I'm like the OP, I've never expected many eggs from dead hens.

 

[krzybo]

I had to buy store bought eggs because I wormed my chickens. Uck, they taste like nothing! My hens started laying like crazy after I wormed them, too. I think they are getting me back for giving them medicine.

 

[gallina man]

why put in cayenne pepper

 

[babyblue]

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some people think it will jump start the egg laying. I have never see it tried it though.

op you have my sorrow at store bought eggs. last night I made a discovery. fresh eggs make amazing custards and pastry creams. my husband and dad love Boston crème pie and lemon meringue pie. my many attempts with store bought eggs where ok, but never great. used our own fresh eggs and oh my goodness the difference is 1000th%

 

[ranchhand]

The broodies won't usually lay until the chicks are nearly independent. And the other one must have some other problem? Or perhaps someone, chicken or predator, is eating her eggs?

Isn't it summer in Australia? I doubt the winter issues are a problem!

 

[nanawendy]

My RSL continue to lay all winter, the BR's slowed down a bit. EE just starting up after 3 month sabbatical. Out 0f 9 girls we got 107 eggs in Jan.

But not enough to feed people @ our church blood drive. My DH made eggs to order and we both cringed when breaking open the store bought eggs

I drizzled a lot of gravy over those biscuits, trying to cover the weak looking eggs.

 

[kezabel]

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Yep its summer over here and I know I shouldn't say this but I'm so sick of the heat and humidity AHHHH

 

[ssteiner]

Of my four hens, three molted in October and didn't lay for a good 10 weeks. We were going crazy, but thankfully our trusty partridge Rock gave us three eggs a week through the dead of winter, just enough to keep the family from having to buy the cursed store bought garbage. Now, all four girls are up and running and we're up to about 15 a week.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

My wife took a bunch of eggs to the food pantry a few weeks ago and brought back some used boxes and filler flats from eggs that had been donated by local stores. As I was taking the flats out of the boxes I found a flat of white eggs in the bottom that the food pantry had missed. After packing over 375,000 brown eggs in the past six months for our egg business, I found those white eggs to be rather freakish. I couldn't believe how white they were. Is there such a thing as day-glo white?

I brought them in and set them on the kitchen counter. My oldest son was home from college and asked where the white eggs had come from.

I told him, "From the barn. We've got a big problem, they're all laying white eggs."

He asks, "All of them?"

"Yeah, I don't know what the hell is wrong."

He grew rather concerned and wanted to know what I was going to do. I strung him along for quite a while...