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Discussion in 'Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying' started by Ktribe808, Jan 8, 2015.

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  1. Jan 8, 2015 #1
    Ktribe808

    Ktribe808 Chirping

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    It is bitter cold here, a wind chill of -10F. The girls have a water fount heater inside their coop, but I learned the hard way you cannot use ACV with a metal fount so I got a new one when the old one started to rust. So I have a plastic water fount in their attached outside pen, that I have wrapped in greenhouse film.
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    The greenhouse film along with a microwavable heating pad (it looks like a fat frisbee) keeps the outside water thawed during the day and I add ACV to that one.

    SO I was juggling the heated microwave pad, the plastic fount, a gallon of water spiked with ACV and a bag of greens and sunflower seeds when I spied a freshly laid egg. With the lack of hands, I quickly stuffed the egg in my coat pocket. DO NOT DO THIS! The coat is in the washer as I write this!
     
  2. Jan 9, 2015 #2
    RonP

    RonP Crowing

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    And the egg was not frozen...lucky you [​IMG]
     
  3. Jan 11, 2015 #3
    Happy Chooks

    Happy Chooks Free Ranging Staff Member Premium Member 9 Years

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    HA! The pocket scramble. [​IMG] I've done it more than once.
     
  4. Jan 11, 2015 #4
    howfunkyisurchicken

    howfunkyisurchicken Crowing

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    Me too, I've made more pocket omelets than I'd like to admit. And, I once collected eggs (wearing my husbands coat) and left an egg in the pocket so long the insides completely dried up. I gathered eggs in the winter and then wore the coat the next winter and found the egg when I stuck my hand in the pocket. It never smelled, but still, that's pretty bad :oops:
     
  5. Jan 11, 2015 #5
    justplainbatty

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    Pocket scramble, pocket omelet, that's funny stuff! My Hubby did that to himself a few weeks ago[​IMG] I'll have to tell him there's a name for that! (shhh, I've done it too and not telling him that)
     
  6. Jan 11, 2015 #6
    myfarm4579

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    Haha that's funny stuff. I done the same thing. Put a couple in my pocket and forgot bout them till next morning when reaching for my egg covered car keys.lol:)
     
  7. Jan 12, 2015 #7
    RonP

    RonP Crowing

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    I currently have 3 eggs in my car...

    Brought them to work unexpectedly...started out with 5 [​IMG]
     

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