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And this is why A] I don't have goats and B] I live far away from people

And my efforts failed.

Darn goat was out again not five minutes after I added even more poles to stabilize the top of the fence so she could not push it down. So I have resorted to plan B. Use a lead rope as a tie out and secure goat to side of shed. She can get in and out of the shed and has access to food and water. It is not the greatest solution but better than getting hit by a car. I used the same method a few years ago when my Nubian did the same thing. Looks like the temps will be above freezing starting Thursday. I hope that is true and they stay that way so the snow pack will start to melt in the goat pen.

 

[ashandvine]

I had friends with dwarf goats that climbed up a snow bank and onto the house roof. They were discovered looking down through the sky lights.

 

[buckabucka]

Weird new post!!! Check this out! IDK what happened. All the green went out of my olive egger's egg this morning and it looks just like my latte!

I've got "olive" eggs like that too. It is hard to describe the color without a photo, because if you tell someone the egg is the color of coffee with cream in it, they will think tan. I don't want goats here, but if a goat looked down through a skylight at me, I would be laughing for weeks!

 

[lazy gardener]

I gave the girls some left over spaghetti this afternoon. They've never shown an interest in it before, but they chowed down so much that their crops are rock hard. I hope they won't be damaged by such a huge starch load. How worried should I be???

 

[buckabucka]

I don't think a pile of spaghetti will do any damage, as long as it was cooked!

 

[CoopChick719]

Weird new post!!! Check this out!


IDK what happened. All the green went out of my olive egger's egg this morning and it looks just like my latte!

Beautiful!!

I had friends with dwarf goats that climbed up a snow bank and onto the house roof. They were discovered looking down through the sky lights.

That must have been a riot!!

 

[lazy gardener]

I gave the girls some left over spaghetti this afternoon. They've never shown an interest in it before, but they chowed down so much that their crops are rock hard. I hope they won't be damaged by such a huge starch load. How worried should I be???

 

[MEMama3]

I've got eggs coming to me later this week. The roo of the flock is a frizzled SLW and then hens are an australorp, buff orp, EE, BCM, SLW and RIR. Should make for some cute babies. How much color washout do you think there would be in the roo/maran mix. I saw the maran's eggs and they're probably about a 7/8 in color. Would the chicks' eggs still be relatively dark?

 

[CoopChick719]

My sister just posted this on my Facebook page. She's just as bad as I am.

 

[Jazor]

You can't see the egg wash/ yolk across the side of her head! They are usually pristine white.
I have been trying to break the egg eating habit. The curtains might be working . It's just been a day. I just figured out they love tuna and I had a lot in the pantry so it worked for me. Might satisfy if they were feeling deficient in protein. Been checking nests frequently. My problem is I work the next three days and am gone from 530 to 1830 . No one to check the boxes. They will either have a free for all or not. We'll see . Beautiful day!

This is the same problem I had with mine. I am gone for the same hours each day, so I couldn't be there to clean out the boxes. I went a week of overloading the boxes with storebought eggs (8-12 eggs per box) and let them eat them. After two days they stopped eating their own, and kept eating the store eggs. After a week I stopped replenishing the storebought eggs, and as the supply of them dwindled I was able to collect more and more fresh eggs.

Not to say it's cured, but I have been getting 7-10 eggs a day (from my 17) which is almost good enough to say the problem is solved. I've stopped adding fresh hay to their boxes since they were splattering yolk all through it. I may go back to adding it soon, but for now I am collecting nice fresh eggs that aren't covered in yolk. It's nice.

Speaking of the eggs, my Red Stars are laying significantly larger eggs than the barred rocks. They are a nice medium brown. The Bared Rock are laying a medium sized light tan egg, and someone laid the "great white egg" recently. I'd like to think it's a silkie, but it seems too big--and I would have expected a blue egg from her.



The "great white egg" doesn't look all that white in the 5am light of the kitchen...but it's actually just about pure white. Weird little critters.