Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Scrambles55]

FOUR!!! Nugget, Penny, Lil Bit and Minnie P

 

[Scrambles55]

Smile.

 

[chickenlindz]

Nice set up scrambles!!!

 

[darina]

I got a whopping 6 eggs today. Mortie, I would be worried about your girl not getting water. It is needed for temperature regulation and is more important in extreme heat or cold weather.


On that note, if you give your chickens red pepper flakes (the kind you sprinkle on your pizza) it improves their circulation and is SUPPOSED to make them lay better. I just throw mine on the ground, and they gobble it up like crazy.
Here is a thread that talks about it, some people use cayenne, some the hot pepper flakes.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...e-your-hens-lay-like-its-spring-in-the-winter

 

[lindz8504]

I ended up getting 6 eggs today!

 

[mortie]

She can and does get water. It's completely accessible. I'm not going to bend over backward to deliver water to her beak while she sits on the roost. There is a thin coating of snow on the ground and she prefers to not walk on it but when she gets thirsty she will drink. All the rest do. All things being equal yeah she would prefer not to, but she'll do what she needs to do to survive. It's fine. She's just being a princess about it.

ONE egg. Showoffs.

 

[ronott1]

She can and does get water. It's completely accessible. I'm not going to bend over backward to deliver water to her beak while she sits on the roost. There is a thin coating of snow on the ground and she prefers to not walk on it but when she gets thirsty she will drink. All the rest do. All things being equal yeah she would prefer not to, but she'll do what she needs to do to survive. It's fine. She's just being a princess about it.

ONE egg. Showoffs.

I figure you are pretty far north. It will take some more time for your girls to pick up. It should be soon though.

I will need to start collecting with a basket again. there were too many today for me to carry at one time so I had to make two trips to collect the eggs.

13!

 

[darina]

She can and does get water. It's completely accessible. I'm not going to bend over backward to deliver water to her beak while she sits on the roost. There is a thin coating of snow on the ground and she prefers to not walk on it but when she gets thirsty she will drink. All the rest do. All things being equal yeah she would prefer not to, but she'll do what she needs to do to survive. It's fine. She's just being a princess about it.

ONE egg. Showoffs.

Oh good. Yup, no special treatment for princess behavior! Haha, I like the mental image of you, the cup bearer, bring the princess her royal chalice of sparkling water. While my chickens guzzle from their fount that they like contaminate in all kinds of ways.

I don't understand how the chickens feel about the snow, sometimes the will step on it and it doesn't bother them, but mostly they avoid it. In the summer time, they sometimes can scoot out the door of my henhouse before I get in to shut it behind me. And if I'm not paying attention, one chicken out the door is followed by two more, then it's a stampede. Now I can leave my henhouse door WIDE open while I'm doing chores. They get up on the edge and look down. They seems to say, "I don't think so!" I am hoping next year it is not such a shock for them and they will venture out...once in while. It feels cramped in their run, especially when I am in there, trying to clean.

 

[Tazbeaux]

I have 2 golden comet pullets that turned 20 weeks old today, no eggs yet... don't be afraid to buy eggs just dont over do it

 

[XxMingirlxX]

I have 2 golden comet pullets that turned 20 weeks old today, no eggs yet... don't be afraid to buy eggs just dont over do it

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