These are the markings on the side. Pretty isnt it?
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Southern NY, Dutchess county and below
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These are the markings on the side. Pretty isnt it?
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Evey time I submit a message it shows up as a group of white ducks.
Glad you got some goodies at the auction Christina.
There was very low turn out at the chick fest. I felt bad. No one brought birds to swap or eggs for that matter. The woman from my pet chicken gave a nice talk geared toward first timers.
There was a very nice farmers market there and the nursery was beautiful.
Brought home a "chicken maniac on board" bumper sticker. Missed the exit on the "Hutch" and the garmin took us through down town Bronx. Should have left that thing on the side of the road.
Glad you got some goodies at the auction Christina.
There was very low turn out at the chick fest. I felt bad. No one brought birds to swap or eggs for that matter. The woman from my pet chicken gave a nice talk geared toward first timers.
There was a very nice farmers market there and the nursery was beautiful.
Brought home a "chicken maniac on board" bumper sticker. Missed the exit on the "Hutch" and the garmin took us through down town Bronx. Should have left that thing on the side of the road.
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Oh my, all the whacked out avatars have changed back....
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Nice crock Cristina...
I really wanted to go to chickenfest, but i look forward to this auction every year (always the 2nd sat in april). There were hundreds of people there. It is a really social event too, food (baked goods, dogs, etc, fundraiser for local club) and yammering with folks and it is only 20 minutes from my house.They auction everthing from tractors to livestock and everything in between.
Nice haul Jersey Hen. I would have passed on the butter churn also. What did it wind up going for?
The North Salem chicken event was fun...no chicken swap though. Probably a good thing! I was asking for you~
Queenchick~ It was so nice to meet you
It went for 140 something. Sorry I missed you today, I love meeting other byc folks.
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Very nice meeting you also Lszajko...And your son and husband...had any more chicks hatched by the time you got home?
I forgot to ask you where you live in New Windsor. My mom lives in a townhouse in continental manor. Have a nice Sunday.
I forgot to ask you where you live in New Windsor. My mom lives in a townhouse in continental manor. Have a nice Sunday.
My Easter egger / silkie cross keeps eating her own eggs. Driving me crazy. I have put a second feeder in the pen, a treat brick, I've been giving them meal worms, They have a dish of oyster shell. I put egg size rocks in the nest boxes. I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions ??
Put a curtain over the nesting box entrance. Fill a blown egg with mustard and let her at it. Collect all eggs as soon as they are laid and keep wooden eggs in the boxes. up the protein and calcium. Keep lots of bedding in the boxes. Soup pot. Those are the suggestions folks gave me with when I had an egg eater.
My results:
Mustard egg was messy and did not yield any decent results.
Golf balls (I don't have wooden eggs handy) encouraged broodiness. I ended up with 6 broodies fighting over the golf balls and still had eggs being eaten.
Curtains seem to work a bit, but I think it has to be very dark otherwise they will find and eat them. It does seem to discourage "cruising" for eggs though. I have one hen who will walk back and forth on the box roost looking for eggs.
Nutrition has not made a difference here, although I do notice less egg eating when they are out ranging all day. I think it is purely the fact that they are out of the coop area most of the day. So, only those eggs that are accidentally broken end up getting eaten.
About accidentally broken eggs... I think this is the primary cause of egg eating (purely my uneducated hypothesis). I think one gets broken due to insufficient nesting materials, or it hits a corner in the box on its way to the floor (since they stand to lay), or it hits another egg when it lands, then they find the goodness and eat it up. I have only had one or two that have actively sought out eggs to eat. So, I have found that lots of bedding in the nesting boxes has been the most helpful. I actually use those nesting pads on the bottom and put straw or shavings on top. The nesting pad prevents them from scratching the nest all the way to the wood so there is always cushion. It has been the one thing that seems to really cut down on accidentally broken eggs and resultant egg eating around here. I am not suggesting it will work for everyone, but it is for me. It also makes for very clean eggs and happy hens. They seem to love the deep litter in the nest boxes.
I suggest you try it all, short of the soup pot (which one old timer suggested is the only true way to break an egg eater and he is probably right, but I wasn't ready to give in yet).
My results:
Mustard egg was messy and did not yield any decent results.
Golf balls (I don't have wooden eggs handy) encouraged broodiness. I ended up with 6 broodies fighting over the golf balls and still had eggs being eaten.
Curtains seem to work a bit, but I think it has to be very dark otherwise they will find and eat them. It does seem to discourage "cruising" for eggs though. I have one hen who will walk back and forth on the box roost looking for eggs.
Nutrition has not made a difference here, although I do notice less egg eating when they are out ranging all day. I think it is purely the fact that they are out of the coop area most of the day. So, only those eggs that are accidentally broken end up getting eaten.
About accidentally broken eggs... I think this is the primary cause of egg eating (purely my uneducated hypothesis). I think one gets broken due to insufficient nesting materials, or it hits a corner in the box on its way to the floor (since they stand to lay), or it hits another egg when it lands, then they find the goodness and eat it up. I have only had one or two that have actively sought out eggs to eat. So, I have found that lots of bedding in the nesting boxes has been the most helpful. I actually use those nesting pads on the bottom and put straw or shavings on top. The nesting pad prevents them from scratching the nest all the way to the wood so there is always cushion. It has been the one thing that seems to really cut down on accidentally broken eggs and resultant egg eating around here. I am not suggesting it will work for everyone, but it is for me. It also makes for very clean eggs and happy hens. They seem to love the deep litter in the nest boxes.
I suggest you try it all, short of the soup pot (which one old timer suggested is the only true way to break an egg eater and he is probably right, but I wasn't ready to give in yet).
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