MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

Maybe water for them is like coffee and tea to us.

Seems like it!

 

[LozzyR]

Milk does not work in earl grey or green tea.

It works with your standard black tea and is sometimes called a Builders because that's how builders like their tea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder's_tea

I usually have milk in Earl Grey and Lady Grey tea, but not green tea. And I do like loose leaf tea in a pot.

 

[BY Bob]

Now that Christa is using the new roost, there was a water container going spare. So I cleaned it, filled it and hung it up in the new roost.

Most mornings this week I've been up before dawn and able to watch the hens wake up.

The water container is their first stop and they spend a LOT of time drinking before they even think about going down the ramp. There's food up there too, but water is the favourite by a country mile.

I knew water was important, but I did not know it was item 1 on the agenda at the crack of dawn.

Happens in my coop as well. Everyone swings by the waterer first thing.

 

[MaryJanet]

I usually have milk in Earl Grey and Lady Grey tea, but not green tea. And I do like loose leaf tea in a pot.

I used to add milk to earl grey but it wasn't ever my idea of a satisfying cuppa. Too thinly flavoured. Not robust enough.

Earl grey without milk is smokier.

 

[MaryJanet]

Happens in my coop as well. Everyone swings by the waterer first thing.

Do they spend much time drinking before the first morning snack? More or less than 15 minutes?

 

[MaryJanet]

Janet has an appointment tomorrow morning for her beak. I hope it can be sorted out without causing her too much discomfort.

 

[BY Bob]

Do they spend much time drinking before the first morning snack? More or less than 15 minutes?

I've never timed them. I could try this weekend.

 

[BY Bob]

Janet has an appointment tomorrow morning for her beak. I hope it can be sorted out without causing her too much discomfort.

I hope so too.

 

[Lexicon]

I've never timed them. I could try this weekend.

One day this summer, I was idly watching my broody drinking and started to count her sips. It went on and on, but since I had started counting, I couldn't just stop in the middle of her drinking!

She ended up taking 27 sips one after the other!

 

[LozzyR]

I used to add milk to earl grey but it wasn't ever my idea of a satisfying cuppa. Too thinly flavoured. Not robust enough.

Earl grey without milk is smokier.

I only like Earl Grey and Lady Grey every so often. Dilmah is currently my loose leaf tea of choice.