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Re: CCT
Thanks for the advice. I will at least check their combs... :).... If I had a little video spy camera, I think that would work best. I could tape them and watch the tape later. I found 2 eggs today and I'm wondering if the extra oyster shell is making their eggs stronger?

posted by mariposa75 on November 2, 2011 at 2:49 PM | link to this | reply

Well MAR all you need do is lift your chickens up gently put your fingers over their bottoms you will feel two bones if they a close together you can be pretty sure that hen is not laying.  Look at the chickens the ones with the nice red combs are OK., any with a shriveled comb pick up and if it feels light it is not going to do any good. There also is a sure fire method of telling which is laying, which you may not like to do . Also if the hen squats she is probably in lay/   

posted by C_C_T on November 2, 2011 at 1:13 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Justi
It could be an opposum (too), but I caught one eating an egg. I should have got rid of that one! I am just hoping it's only 1.

posted by mariposa75 on November 1, 2011 at 7:15 PM | link to this | reply

Are you sure it is not something else eathing the eggs? I have never had that happen. Be blessed.

posted by Justi on October 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM | link to this | reply

It's hard to believe that it's that time of the year when the gardens freeze...Those chickens are quite the cannibals there.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on October 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM | link to this | reply

it is below freezing here today too and i want time to finish in
the garden......I can only write poems or stories when i am settled as well.

posted by Kabu on October 27, 2011 at 7:29 AM | link to this | reply

We had a hard freeze too and now my flowers and the last of the garden were ruined, too! I got plenty from it all so I am satisfied! I hope you get the chicken and the egg syndrome figured out soon, it has to be very frustrating! sam 

posted by sam444 on October 27, 2011 at 3:09 AM | link to this | reply