Texas

[Kiki]

went to check for eggs and found this ...

Not sure if it's a no brainier but this isn't safe to eat right? The shell is cracked but nothing's leaking..
This is the second time this has happened, first time I thought my daughter cracked it

. The 2 girls that are laying move all the shavings away to lay, I've got plenty in there but they make a little circle and lay in it

.. Should I try hay?

I'd guess you just got it so it's really fresh...I'd eat it.
Hay might be good.

 

[kajira]

went to check for eggs and found this ...

Not sure if it's a no brainier but this isn't safe to eat right? The shell is cracked but nothing's leaking..
This is the second time this has happened, first time I thought my daughter cracked it

. The 2 girls that are laying move all the shavings away to lay, I've got plenty in there but they make a little circle and lay in it

.. Should I try hay?

we use fresh hay that we mow ourselves from our back pasture. our only problems is our goats go into the chicken coop and steal it LOL

https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Pe...236&sr=8-1&keywords=nesting+pads+for+chickens

^^^ I was going to get these, for our 2 house chickens when they are older and ready to start laying. They have good reviews. (The silkies aren't born yet, we are getting them sent in a couple weeks!)

 

[NinasNest]

we use fresh hay that we mow ourselves from our back pasture. our only problems is our goats go into the chicken coop and steal it LOL

https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Pet-Excelsior-Nesting-Pads/dp/B00CAVMIK2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471031236&sr=8-1&keywords=nesting+pads+for+chickens

^^^ I was going to get these, for our 2 house chickens when they are older and ready to start laying. They have good reviews.  (The silkies aren't born yet, we are getting them sent in a couple weeks!)

i think I might try hay and if they still continue to be pains I'll look into these pads. Never seen them before, seems like a good idea!

 

[TexasLisa]

You made me remembering of my daddy. Back in the 90s when camcorder and VCR tape started to become popular. After seeing himself walking in the video clip, he said "wow, I am old. I didn't see that in previous (still) pictures".

He took me to US in 1975. Not too long before that, when US had the famous Woodstock event (1969), in Vietnam they duplicated and conducted a big Hippie music concert a year later. He took me there to enjoy the Hippie time. I remember listening to a singer singing "Have you ever seen the rain". Halfway in the song, rain poured down heavily to stop the concert.

Lisa dear, did you attend the Woodstock ... I can't find your pictures in the Woodstock collection

My sister and I would take Dad out to eat. He was in his 80's and at that time in pretty good shape. He was a people-watcher. He would look at the old people and shake his head. He never saw himself as old. His hair was just starting to turn a steel gray color.

Hung, what am I going to do with you. I was 14 years old and was living in S. Indiana at the time. I thought Woodstock was silly. At that time, I was interested and raising horses.

 

[ChicKat]

went to check for eggs and found this ...

Not sure if it's a no brainier but this isn't safe to eat right? The shell is cracked but nothing's leaking..
This is the second time this has happened, first time I thought my daughter cracked it

. The 2 girls that are laying move all the shavings away to lay, I've got plenty in there but they make a little circle and lay in it

.. Should I try hay?

You figured that one out really quick, that kind of hole took me a little while to diagnose the cause -- I got a series of eggs before I realized that it was happening the instant they were laid when they hit hard surface.

You may want to consider getting some of those plastic pads.

http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/kuhl-plastic-nest-pads.html?ref=lexity&_vs=google&_vm=productsearch

There are several of types -- these are plastic and you can just rinse them off if they get soiled. I have chickens that do the same and they go crazy getting all the shavings out. Where I buy mine there are the smaller and larger wood shavings -- the smaller ones are probably softer--- and that may help. Partly, I think it is a pullet thing too.....they seem to do it very thoroughly when they first start.

I put the plastic pad on the hard wood floor of the nesting box -- and then put wood shavings piled on top of that -- Even if the hen removes All the shavings -- the plastic is still there to cushion the egg. Doesn't show but it has little plastic fibers sticking up to provide a soft landing.

 

[ChicKat]

At the risk of sounding stupid, is it okay to eat the eggs from my girls since they have fowl pox?

Since fowl pox don't affect humans - I wouldn't hesitate to use the eggs, especially if cooked in something like scrambled eggs. I don't know if I would give away or sell the eggs from the hen. Dry pox is a real 'no big deal' IMO -- but wet pox can kill. And dry pox can turn into wet pox as I understand it. I lost my best little hen this spring when the pox closed off her air passages. Another one had pox closing off her throat so she couldn't swallow -- or maybe the way they affected her mouth and beak...she couldn't close it -- she was totally 'deformed' and I thougt that she would die -- but she pulled through. At one point I was putting 'grow gel' in the corner of her beak with a Q-tip so it could drip down her throat and water with vitamins. The one thing that seemed to really help was to also dab good old fashioned iodine on the pox -- inside her beak.

Had a rooster who had one eye swollen shut from the pox, then in a day or so his other eye swelled shut -- so basically he was blind. One thing that really helped him was some good vitamins -- I got that brown bottle 'poultry cell' by rooster booster -- (never see it at TSC any longer...but you can get it on line)....

Both chickens are as good as new now. ETA - the rooster looked REALLY good after his convalesence -- the rooster booster made his feathers really really shine.

Hopefully you will only have dry and it will go away quickly.

 

[NinasNest]

You figured that one out really quick, that kind of hole took me a little while to diagnose the cause  -- I got a series of eggs before I realized that it was happening the instant they were laid when they hit hard surface.  

You may want to consider getting some of those plastic pads.

http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/kuhl-plastic-nest-pads.html?ref=lexity&_vs=google&_vm=productsearch

There are several of types -- these are plastic and you can just rinse them off if they get soiled.  I have chickens that do the same and they go crazy getting all the shavings out.  Where I buy mine there are the smaller and larger wood shavings -- the smaller ones are probably softer--- and that may help.    Partly, I think it is a pullet thing too.....they seem to do it very thoroughly when they first start. 

I put the plastic pad on the hard wood floor of the nesting box -- and then put wood shavings piled on top of that -- Even if the hen removes All the shavings -- the plastic is still there to cushion the egg.  Doesn't show but it has little plastic fibers sticking up to provide a soft landing. 

Well I've moved their nesting box, that they never use, over to where they're laying. I'm going to look into these pads!
Should I have cooked this egg right away? I put it in the fridge when I brought it in

 

[ChicKat]

here is my fireplace -- nice huh? Look toward the lower left right above the mantle:



Here is a zoom in jus a bit -- do you see it behind the tall turquoise thingie?



Okay you see it now right? (scream and turn green)



so how did the snake get IN, how long has it been IN and are there more?

Kind of feel like I am under attack. Last night something was thudding against my house. First time thought maybe an owl flew into the house or something...but it kept up. Went out to look and couldn't find anything in the pitch dark. It kept happening and finally I found a giant Bullfrog. The biggest Bullfrog I have ever seen he must have been jumping up and getting insects? Dunno.

Anyone else ever have 1. snakes in the house via an unknown method (no more leaving the doors open that's for sure0 -- and Have you ever had Bullfrogs thumping against your house at 11:00 at night?

 

[ChicKat]

Well I've moved their nesting box, that they never use, over to where they're laying. I'm going to look into these pads!
Should I have cooked this egg right away? I put it in the fridge when I brought it in

I think it is safe. Just don't delay too long IMO.

 

[hensfortherapy]

My poor, poor babies just can't catch a break! As if the heat and humidity weren't enough, I'm pretty sure they now have fowl pox

I hope they are healing. When my hens had it, a vet told me to give them tomatoes. I can't remember what else.