IMPORTANT!!!! My chicken, Providance, has informed me that today is "Cricket Day" for Chickens. It is the day that they gorge themselves with insects of all kinds, especially crickets, just as we do with turkey!
Should I buy eggs or wait it out?
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Hahahaha!!! Wellll then time to gather the unsuspecting mealies!!!! Let the fest begin!
I think about posting here from time to time, but I get busy or distracted or feel shy about it. I wanted to share the story of my buff orp who decided that she should lay a shell-less egg on the top rung of the roost and fell off in the process, and many other stories, but just never got around to it. Need to take a moment to share/vent, and since I am at work and nobody is calling, it seems now is the time to play along.
I have seven girls. Three of which are laying and the other four are playing the part of a moocher. The four are younger than the three, but they are reaching an age where this is no longer an excuse. Ruby and Nox (RIR and Blue Andalusian), are now 24 weeks, very red, and have been squatting for Henry (aka "Chicken Soup"), for some time now. Nox even walks around singing the egg song. At first I took that to be a good sign, but three weeks later I had to tell her that she sings off key. Ruby looks ready but she isn't squatting or singing. I have followed this thread closely and have given them a fodder cake (I am not so good at pie so I said, "Let them eat cake"), with scratch and pumpkin frosting and meal worm sprinkles (sprinkles makes everything better). I have written them poetry (very bad poetry, but it's the thought that counts right?) I have eaten KFC in front of them (they wanted a bite and I haven't done that since. Cannibals!), complimented them, given them treats...what is a chicken mom to do!?! The other two, are EE's and are 21.5 weeks. They are the babies and my favorites so they have time. They still cuddle with me. Pearl jumps into my lap just to cuddle. She refuses to take treats from me. Opal has figured out the treat dispenser but unlike the older girls, she will sit in my lap to get them. So my EE's have a pass because I like them. Ruby and Nox, have been known as the "Psycho Sisters" since they were a few days old. It was amusing for a while, but they are really crazy. Ruby was on the roof of the coop yesterday, which was funny because it is really steep and it was like a chicken treadmill for her. Well, now you know my woes.
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four, four, today we laid four! No sooner did I post this, than my DH sent me a text letting me know that today, Ruby started laying!!!!
I have seven girls. Three of which are laying and the other four are playing the part of a moocher. The four are younger than the three, but they are reaching an age where this is no longer an excuse. Ruby and Nox (RIR and Blue Andalusian), are now 24 weeks, very red, and have been squatting for Henry (aka "Chicken Soup"), for some time now. Nox even walks around singing the egg song. At first I took that to be a good sign, but three weeks later I had to tell her that she sings off key. Ruby looks ready but she isn't squatting or singing. I have followed this thread closely and have given them a fodder cake (I am not so good at pie so I said, "Let them eat cake"), with scratch and pumpkin frosting and meal worm sprinkles (sprinkles makes everything better). I have written them poetry (very bad poetry, but it's the thought that counts right?) I have eaten KFC in front of them (they wanted a bite and I haven't done that since. Cannibals!), complimented them, given them treats...what is a chicken mom to do!?! The other two, are EE's and are 21.5 weeks. They are the babies and my favorites so they have time. They still cuddle with me. Pearl jumps into my lap just to cuddle. She refuses to take treats from me. Opal has figured out the treat dispenser but unlike the older girls, she will sit in my lap to get them. So my EE's have a pass because I like them. Ruby and Nox, have been known as the "Psycho Sisters" since they were a few days old. It was amusing for a while, but they are really crazy. Ruby was on the roof of the coop yesterday, which was funny because it is really steep and it was like a chicken treadmill for her. Well, now you know my woes.
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Ah! If only I had known! I would have done cricket sprinkles instead of meal worm....
Did you check the hole for an egg? Maybe Roger's been hiding her eggs and saving them for nefarious purposes.
I went to the bait store to buy crickets, buy they were all out. So I bought 18 nightcrawlers. The chickens weren't as interested.
Hi Lilwanis
Glad you posted. It got Ruby laying! Maybe she was afraid of public embarrassment. Roger has no shame, but I think there are some chickens who care about their reputations!
I've seen you on the EE bragger's thread and definitely agree with you about the EEs (Cheeka will too). I only have one now, but had a few about 25 years ago and loved them then. The next time I have room for more chickens, EEs will be at the top of a very long list.
Animallover, do you provide the crickets? We have lots of earwigs and the occasional Jerusalem cricket
that I'm so happy to have devoured by the mob. Now I just need to train them to catch mosquitoes and flies! After that, they need to learn how to clean the coop.
Ha! As soon as I posted I saw you answered my question! Can you read minds?
I've seen you on the EE bragger's thread and definitely agree with you about the EEs (Cheeka will too). I only have one now, but had a few about 25 years ago and loved them then. The next time I have room for more chickens, EEs will be at the top of a very long list.
Animallover, do you provide the crickets? We have lots of earwigs and the occasional Jerusalem cricket
Ha! As soon as I posted I saw you answered my question! Can you read minds?
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Maybe *shifty eyes shifty eyes*
I'm thinking about raising crickets...
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