"Well the eggs are dirty..."

[sparkles2307]

DH said the same thing, he thought they would be different. So I boiled up the bantys first 2 eggs and sent them to school with DS who loved and appreciated them to a level that appeased me.

 

[texasgal]

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And carrots.

... and mushrooms ... yum.

 

[b.hromada]

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You guys are tooooo funny. Some people just won't listen to reason. Maybe they are "stuck on stupid"?

 

[blaundee]

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And carrots.

 

[WildBurroShirts.com]

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OH yeah: I dropped an egg coming thru the run gate (because the dogs were rushing me trying to get in to eat chickens) and the dogs dove on it, ate it all.

Two days later I turn the 'Lorps out to free range and later that day I see the big dog walking around like something's wrong with her jaw: she's carrying an egg carefully off to her hiding place to eat in comfort. Bah.

As for the OP's friends...yeah. I give the icky ones to the dogs (fried), but now that I'm selling them I'm thinking of washing the icky ones for me and selling the nice ones.

I use small shavings in the nests and have created landing platforms, so when the bird jumps up from the floor most of the ick falls off. Then they have to step up and whatever's left usually ends up on that step.

 

[lindym]

I don't seem to be having a problem with dirty eggs . . .


OH! Maybe that is because they quite laying

. 3 weeks ago we had cute, small eggs: some hard shelled, some soft shelled, none in the nesting boxes and some under the roost. But there WERE eggs. Now nothing

Made changes in the nesting boxes, added golf balls to some, furniture gets rearranged, but NO eggs. The light is on a timer and they are on layer food with additional oyster shell.

But I don't have dirty eggs to wash

Linda

 

[Tala]

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Hehehe I got caught with almost 2 doz old, storebought eggs (as in they were a month out of "date" lol) when I got my first fresh egg. I cooked up 2 old eggs for DH, then served him a new one and he was impressed at the taste improvement. OK maybe I cheated by using OLD store eggs, but...lol

 

[kathyinmo]

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Linda,
I read that chickens don't like change, and that it stresses them. One example was about changing around the roosts and nests, and that the stress of that could cause them to stop laying.

 

[KMHunter]

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Linda,
I read that chickens don't like change, and that it stresses them. One example was about changing around the roosts and nests, and that the stress of that could cause them to stop laying.

I have experienced this very recently! We built a new coop and changed everything and my Sexlink got an impacted crop, and so with all of the stress and trauma she stopped laying for the last week and a half. She just started again today. They were soft shelled but she layed two! I am hoping now she will get back on track. They have plenty of oystershell and layer food so I am hoping that her eggs get back to normal. She is still a fairly new layer.

 

[lindym]

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Actually the changes were being made the day the first egg was laid. We weren't expecting them to be laying at 19 weeks +/- and the nesting boxes were being put in place when we found the first one. The only real changes would be the layer crumbles and the oyster shell.

Linda