The Poultry Keeper

HeatherBB · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 154 Location: Chelmsford

Its a race between me and my two children to troop out and check the nest box every day that when the first prize arrives theres going to be a 'scramble' Laughing

over who gets it with soldiers!! (Hubby used to work on a neighbours canadian style battery chicken farm Sad

so its all old hat to him!!!)

thewinkingtiger · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 936 Location: East Yorkshire, UK

AC - knowing my luck the new girls will stop laying the minute they arrive at our house!

I think my chooks lifestyle is so laid back that they don't think they have to do anything for their keep!!! ROFL

summayah · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton

I used to find with mine in the summer that they thought producing eggs was so hard a job that they took it in turns to go broody and not bother doing anything even when they were turfed out of the boxes ~ that even included hybrids and my lovely honey, wheaten maran!
It was strange really I loved having the girls around and never thought of the number of eggs that 22 girls could produce if they all got to it ~ even with only 10 of them laying my neighbours and anyone else I came across had continuous gifts of eggs. I was living on my own then, but the moment my daughter and her family came to stay they went off the idea of laying!

jaydee67 · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject:

I haven't had a hen's egg since we got back from holiday! 15 hens - ok 6 haven't come into lay yet - but even so!

nigel · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:

on average at the moment

3 eggs - 11 chickens (most moulting, and one broody) so overall I think it's ok - it's enough for me and Steph

Knobby · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:09 am Post subject:

Whos the broody one Nigel.....is it still Dusty ??