Someone laid an egg!

[Appalachickens]

I’ve started doing more of an overnight mash, too. Once summer really hit, fermentation would just take off and become too sour, I guess.

I've been keeping a gallon jar in the garage and every morning I scoop out the wet mash with a slotted spoon to put in their bowl, add more water as needed, and then more feed. So much of the liquid is more than a day old, but it seems to be staying in good shape.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I've been keeping a gallon jar in the garage and every morning I scoop out the wet mash with a slotted spoon to put in their bowl, add more water as needed, and then more feed. So much of the liquid is more than a day old, but it seems to be staying in good shape.

It works, as long as I remember to get it off the windowsill and into the fridge. A bit too long out in the warm, and oof.

 

[Airyaman]

Weird. So after my first blue egg, nothing. Looked in the nesting boxes and one spot in the run where the SS would likes to lay eggs (where I found the first blue egg).

My guess is the one who was laying found somewhere to lay the egg while free ranging and I have not seen it. My suspicions were somewhat confirmed when I came back from a HD run and spotted a blue egg in the middle of their free range area! Just out in in the open. Luckily the others don't seem to want to eat it.

Now I hope I spot the other(s) before I start to smell them.

What can you do to encourage they use the nesting boxes instead of the ground?

 

[matheny00]

Lol, that 50# of OS should last you a good long time! You'll think they aren't taking any ... but they will. Just tiny amounts.

I bought a 12 lb bag of oyster shells and the girls tossed it all over. It was almost empty on the ground the next morning. I guess they like eating it off the ground. Lol

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I keep mine in a cat food gravity feeder they can't dump over. Goofballs!

 

[Appalachickens]

I bought a 12 lb bag of oyster shells and the girls tossed it all over. It was almost empty on the ground the next morning. I guess they like eating it off the ground. Lol

I had one of those plexiglass birdfeeders that would not stay stuck to the window, so I attached it to the wall in the run and put the ouster shell in that. They cant tip it over. I already had another one with grit so there are two side by side now, but this is the one with grit in it.