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[Auntiejessi3]

Well, I grabbed 6 eggs around noon and brought them a bowl of egg shells and kitchen scraps so hopefully that helps quench their desire to go pecking.

I have a hanging feeder with plenty of free feed oyster shells (just refilled it this month so I know there is plenty) and their treadle was filled last Friday and is plenty full.
I guess I used to bring a bowl of "treats" (kitchen scraps and smushed egg shells) twice/week, but we've been too busy to do it more than once/week lately.

Angela, who has taken residence on top of the coop roof, jumped into the bowl as soon as I got in.

I did notice that they never leave the golf balls and ceramic eggs where they belong. Part of their egg laying routine seems to be to gather/move them around. I took the nesting box dividers out as that is where I mount the cameras to monitor the nesting boxes, but maybe I should consider putting the dividers back and trying to find new camera mounting locations.

How is the egg eating coming along?

 

[ATXInstantFlock]

How is the egg eating coming along?

My junior chicken farmer and I had our coop maintenance day yesterday.
We refreshed all nesting boxes (remove all bedding, wash and scrub dried egg remnants, and added more fake eggs with new bedding to every box.

I'm happy to announce that I collected one egg for every hen for the first time in 25 days. Kinda makes me wonder how many I had lost over the past few weeks. I thought it was 4-5, but maybe I was losing multiple per day.
I'm starting to think it may have started while the kids were on spring break as we extended the time between refilling their feeders. I don't think their food feeder could have gone empty for more than a few hours, at most. Maybe once they got the taste of their own delicious eggs, they stopped caring about their feed.
So crossing my fingers that we're all set now.