Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

Morning everyone!

This is how you teach chickens to like raw eggs:

Send a ten year old out to collect eggs - have her stumble and fall with said eggs
Have chickens pounce on yummy broken eggs.

*bigsigh*

 

[Minniechickmama]

In my experience, they don't need to be taught to eat them. I give mine any cracked eggs. I just make sure when they hit the ground they are smashed so not to look like a nice round egg. I feed them to my cats about once a week too. It is a great source of protein for them too.

 

[KlopKlop]

In my experience, they don't need to be taught to eat them.  I give mine any cracked eggs.  I just make sure when they hit the ground they are smashed so not to look like a nice round egg.  I feed them to my cats about once a week too.  It is a great source of protein for them too.

I have dropped eggs in the coop and you are right, they are on them like white on rice!

Fortunately, Scandia, this has never translated to egg eating for me. Same as if an egg ever gets smoothed in the nest.

Sometimes my big hands can be clumsy with eggs

 

[holm25]

My darn Cochin banties are all starting to go broody!!

 

[KlopKlop]

My darn Cochin banties are all starting to go broody!!

Let them sit! By the time they hatch it will be mid March and the temps will be on the rise!

 

[holm25]

Let them sit! By the time they hatch it will be mid March and the temps will be on the rise!

Only my waterfowl get to hatch this year. My Banties are scared of me making there chicks 10X more scared of me... O dont like wild chicks or started birds. I had a whole group of roos who disapeared. I found them two weeks later... Sleeping right above the cows... They know what they r doing when it comes to safety from predators. So I'm not letting my hens hatch this year... Or not till late spring...

 

[scandiafowl]

I have dropped eggs in the coop and you are right, they are on them like white on rice!

Fortunately, Scandia, this has never translated to egg eating for me. Same as if an egg ever gets smoothed in the nest.

Sometimes my big hands can be clumsy with eggs

If I set an egg basket down in the coop while I'm collecting eggs there are a couple of hens that will immediately start pecking at them.

Am glad to hear that the behavior doesn't generalize.

By the way if you want to check out my FB page: Anna's Scandia Eggs. Am working on a following locally

 

[scandiafowl]

Let them sit! By the time they hatch it will be mid March and the temps will be on the rise!

Have been wondering about that. I have an Australorp who is broody and may let her set.

 

[KlopKlop]

Have been wondering about that. I have an Australorp who is broody and may let her set.

Worst case they don't hatch, or you may have to take the chicks and brood them yourself right? They are calling for an early spring!

 

[FoxyChicken]

I'm starting to suspect my super broody BA is on the verge also.... And my broody buster coop is buried under feet of snow

She hatched my chicks last year and was an absolutely awesome mom but I don't have room for any more! I barely have room for the ones I have!

And on a scary note, my neighbors had a marten and a mink at their bird feeder within minutes of each other this weekend. I'm hoping the scent of my two dogs will keep them away from my property! I left the coop open today since it's so warm, I hope I don't end up regretting that decision.

I'm quite surprised they didn't kill the neighbor's chickens, their bird feeders are directly above their coop and run.