[Sca-cooks] What got into the chickens?

[charding at nwlink.com]

We find that white wood shavings work better than straw.  they don't kick
it all out of teh nest box.

We are also experiencing egg-flation.  we were getting 2 eggs every other
day and after the solstice have been getting 3 or more each day.  (except
for teh past few days where teh temperatures at night have been down in
the 20s.) This will increase over the next few months til we are getting
18 every day.

We trade eggs to the bakery down the road for bread and sandwiches.

Maeva

> And whatever dirt the girls kick into their nest boxes. I try to keep
> plenty of clean straw or hay down, but rainy days (which we haven't
> had for a few weeks) mean they track mud in and all over the eggs by
> the time I get to them.
>
> After no eggs yesterday, btw, they gave me 5 today- only one banty
> egg, and 4 huge normal sized hen eggs.
>
> And Tie- Dye, one of the banty roosters, escaped. He figured he wanted
> to get into the duck feed, I think, and tried to pick a fight with
> Red, a Rhode Island rooster about twice his size. He won, too- Red's a
> wimp. Will bully you if you let him, but quits as soon as you fight
> back. Caught him, and everyone's happy with their feed and water.
> Except Tie- Dye- he missed out on all the dog food when he was out
> adventuring.
>
> They're a lot of fun ;-)
>
> On 2/11/07, Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:
>> That would be the chicken poop part?
>> --Maire, who gathered more than her share of eggs in her younger days...
>>
>
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