Coffee anyone ?

[WolfeMomma]

Oh how I miss fresh eggs. Ours have just stopped laying. 16 chickens and I haven't had any eggs from them in a month. Bunch of freeloaders I tell ya!!! Probably going to order a different breed from the hatchery this spring, Not sure what kind yet though.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on...making waffles in a minute.
I had lights on in our coop...eggs year around that way.

 

[Baymule]

I used to get 6 chicks every spring, by fall they were laying. I slaughtered hens in their second molt. So at times I had 18 hens, but in winter I had 12. Rotating in the new and rotating out the old worked for me and I had eggs all year around. I may get back to doing that, I have too many chickens!

 

[Bruce]

I thought I would fall off the chair........

If you make it full strength (per the original recipe), I would be surprised if you didn't fall off your chair!

Oh how I miss fresh eggs. Ours have just stopped laying. 16 chickens and I haven't had any eggs from them in a month. Bunch of freeloaders I tell ya!!! Probably going to order a different breed from the hatchery this spring, Not sure what kind yet though.

How old are they? I've never had girls lay in the late fall/early winter after their first year as I don't light the coop. Mine have a "forever home" so I figure not to burn them out with year round laying. I have 8 pullets that were hatched (Meyer Hatchery) 6 months ago, getting eggs from 2, maybe 3 of them. The others need to get on the nest!

It was an adoption agency, you know, a place full of children. Duh.

5000 children/20 years=250 children per year/12 months=20.8 children a month
Your math is off. But 20.8? How in the world did she kidnap a .8 child? I find that disturbing.

Some kids are younger therefore shorter so only count as .8??

TWENTY years??? I was guessing 5ish years based on the "during the Depression" time frame.
Didn't realize it was an adoption agency, I wonder how many adopters had an inkling these kids weren't legally adoptable. And what were they told? Mom and Dad died (must have been a constant "parade" to the grave yard)? Gave them up because they couldn't afford to feed them? That might have worked in 1930 but 1945? Gullible or implicated in the scheme I guess.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh how I miss fresh eggs. Ours have just stopped laying. 16 chickens and I haven't had any eggs from them in a month. Bunch of freeloaders I tell ya!!! Probably going to order a different breed from the hatchery this spring, Not sure what kind yet though.

If mine aren't laying when they should be... I often find it is because they have parasites.

Right now I am not getting eggs... but I did treat them in the fall for parasites.... it is just my flock is way too old, and the few pullets that I kept, are still too young, and I have no light to help them start up.

So... I bought eggs again today... the absolute least expensive eggs... 1 dozen medium cage reared... $2.60

 

[Baymule]

I've put a light on chickens before. It worked to get them started back to laying after they molted. I figured they needed the time off to grow in new feathers, but waiting months after that for spring? Uh, no. I don't have any lit up now, but when I build my permanent coop and run, I will have electricity run to it.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on. Got some shopping done. Almost finished.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee. I need to rustle up some breakfast. No idea what, sometimes I go blank at mealtime.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sometimes I go blank at mealtime.

My mother used to say if you don't know what you're hungry for - you're not hungry enough.
Geeze.....what do I want for breakfast???

 

[Baymule]

Oatmeal. Then picking up grand daughters for the day.