I agree with Rancher. Try some wooden eggs first. She isn't going to be rewarded by breaking the shell and get something good to eat. I got my wooden eggs at Michael's. Good luck.Congratulations on the new job!
The cake recipe is weighing on my mind. I may have to try it, but since I'm feeling fat, now is probably not a good time, but then, who knows!
My egg count varies, yesterday six, the day before four. Ten hens. Today I spent some time in the coop, it was above freezing, so a great day to sift the sand etc, and since it was low, I finally got the new bags of sand out of my car where they had been riding with me. But as I scooped and sifted and made it nice, there was a lot of complaining. Fawn, who had been caught in the act of egg eating, but had been returned to the coop since I was at a loss of what to do with her, started an egg song. For a while she had been peering into the nest boxes, even climbing in, then jumping out. Finally two hens got in the boxes. They chose to leave again, and wasn't Fawn right back in their boxes. I think that she was instigating egg laying behavior in the others in anticipation of eating their eggs. She may need to have a permanent solution to her problem.
Yay! I get excited when I see my eggs developing as well!!!!6/6 EE eggs are developing (one week in)!!! Chickprincess, Buddy is doing his job!
Cass, I am sorry to hear about your pain. Holding it that way probably eases the pressure on the joint. Makes the arm useless, however.My sholder hurts so much I can hardly type. Afraid I have gotten old enough to have bursitis or something evil like that in the joint. Feels better if I cross the arm across my body and pull it up toward my heart--whatever that means. No coop cleaning for me for a while. I hope I can find the clothes pins for my nose when I collect eggs, cuz when it warms up it's gonna stink stink stink down there.
Gonna rest my arm. I'll keep reading tho.