Shoving straw into feathers

[Farm_Maven]

I think it's a camouflage thing.

 

[peachachecha]

Panthus, very happy for you that your girls are laying!! Mine are little ingrates!! ;>) Still love them though. How old are your Isa Browns? I have one and she was born some time in April and my other two are Black Marans born in March some time. This waiting is just too much....wonder if they are even hens!!! I know they are little pigs, that is for sure. I don't know what I did with all my time before, now all I do is watch them peck around their enclosure.

 

[Panthus]

My girls would be about 21 weeks now. So I'm guessing they were born in May? I think one of my girls hasn't quite got the hang of it yet though. Unfortunately I'm just not sure which one. I agree about them being little pigs. I top up the feed bottle each day with a full small mixing bowl of organic mix, plus scraps in the morning PLUS they free range all day long. I'll have little tubbies soon I'm sure.

I'm sure your girls will pop some eggs soon enough when they are ready. Such an anxious wait though isn't it. Come on little ladies!!!

 

[silky_3699]

one of mine did that once...

 

[peachachecha]

I purchased my girls from a friend that has over 100 chickens. When I picked them up I asked what she had been feeding them and she told me just scratch. They free ranged all day. I wonder if the fact that they did not get the proper food has had anything to do with their delay in production of eggs? They receive a proper diet now and I don't let them out to free range until about 1 and then they go at it till bedtime and I also give them corn in the afternoon with treats of mealworms, yogurt, kale, tomatoes or anything else I think they might like. They also have grit and oyster shell available to them all day as well as clean water with organic apple cider added to it.

 

[Animalian]

I've read on here once before that that is how they would collect nesting material for their nests in the wild, shoving it into you feathers lets you carry a lot more that just in your beak. It's just that modern day domestic chickens have lost the talent for it lol