HELP!!!!!

[MontyJ]

I am going to see if I can incorporate that rollout design into the one Steve posted. I really like that old school box! This is the chicken that I think laid the egg yesterday. She is also the ruler of the roost. Her name is Goldilox:

 

[Collector]

I am going to see if I can incorporate that rollout design into the one Steve posted. I really like that old school box! This is the chicken that I think laid the egg yesterday. She is also the ruler of the roost. Her name is Goldilox:

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She looks like a no nonsense gal LOL. Every flock needs a boss...

 

[dewdropsinwv]

S will walk up to one of the other chickens and bite them for no reason at all. poor lil chicks. She pecked my lil cinnamon last night for no reason at all and cinnamon pecked her right back.... in the eye. so they get their pecks in too. If it wasnt goldilox, it was nutmeg.

 

[baymule]

S will walk up to one of the other chickens and bite them for no reason at all. poor lil chicks. She pecked my lil cinnamon last night for no reason at all and cinnamon pecked her right back.... in the eye. so they get their pecks in too. If it wasnt goldilox, it was nutmeg.

Now you know where the expressions "pecking order" and "hen pecked" come from!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I'm Super excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got my first egg today!!!!!! I know who laid the very first egg now too. It was nutmeg!!! Nutmeg has been climbing on the feed bags for days, and that's where I found the egg, between the feed and bedding

 

[digitS']

Would it make sense to put a cage up there?

My nestboxes are in cages, above the floor. A cardboard box lines the cage - it can be tossed in the garbage frequently & replaced. I can cover the outside of the cage.

Maybe a feed bag and some bedding can go in Nutmeg's nestbox and she will go right in there. Best of Luck!

Steve

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I think Im going to have to box in the feed and bedding Digits. To keep her out of there when she's ready to lay the egg. MontyJ and I will have to throw a temporary cage around it this evening.
I dont know when she laid the egg, so I will have to watch her. I have put her and a few other chickens in the nest boxes, but they just hop right back out. Nutmeg does scratch around when she is in there. I've been looking around in the run and in the bedding when I take their fresh water and treats out to them just to make sre no one has laid eggs there. I just hope they use the nest boxes :/

 

[ducks4you]

Don't worry about it. They will ALL eat eggs on occasion. Keep their water bowl full, and harvest eggs often. If an egg cracks the flock will descend upon it.

 

[vfem]

I just keep a ton of golf balls in the nesting boxes. They lay and I collect. They peck a few golf balls and get nothing and they finally give up because they can't tell them apparent. Egg eaters don't enjoy golf so much. LOL

 

[MontyJ]

I don't know. I'm still not totally convinced that it was Nutmeg. The evidence is circumstantial at best. Yes, she has been hanging around there a lot lately, and continues to do so today. Also, the egg was pretty small, perfectly formed and normal in every respect, but small, so it could have been her. Time will tell, I guess. We have two other birds of the same breed (red sexlink), should they also start laying soon too?

In the meantime, I covered the nest box openings with burlap curtains.