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RollingAcres
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When one lays in bed/couch for hours and can't sleep?
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RollingAcres
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Y'all, I have one less free loader around here! Lol. One of the juvenile hens laid an egg yesterday. I found it on the floor of the coop.
greybeard
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When one lays in bed/couch for hours and can't sleep?
I don't have any trouble sleeping &....I have the lights off when I go to bed.
Mike CHS
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Congratulations on another hen paying for her keep. 
Bruce
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Congrats on the new layer RA! Looks like it came from an EE in the first picture but is white in the second.
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I don't either.
More of them really need to start soon.
It's white/off white, so it must be from the Ancona hen. The rest should be laying brown eggs.
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RollingAcres
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Got another egg from the Ancona hen. This time she laid it in one of the nesting boxes so that's good. I forgot to check for eggs yesterday evening, only did it in the morning. So the egg I collected this morning was frozen and has a slight crack. So do you think the egg is still ok to eat since it's cracked?
It was -2° out yesterday when i went to feed the cows. You'd think they would be in the barn but nope, they were out in the cold/snow. Probably soaking up the sun I'm thinking.
It was -2° out yesterday when i went to feed the cows. You'd think they would be in the barn but nope, they were out in the cold/snow. Probably soaking up the sun I'm thinking.
Bruce
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Maybe. Depends on how long it was frozen. I've had some that still looked OK inside and some that have a thick white and the yolk was a bit chalky. I cook the frozen ones and feed them back to the hens.
I got one of those "off the roost" eggs this morning. Must have been there a fairly long time since it was cracked, the 3 in the nest box were not cracked. Of course it helps that hen #2 warms up hen #1's egg and hen #3 does the same for both of the earlier eggs. No such luck with "off the roost" eggs.
Have your cows talk to my alpacas. Stupid things are still pooping in the barn They must be getting soft, used to be they would come in with snow or ice on their backs. Now they don't even want to go out to pee & poop.
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RollingAcres
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It was probably frozen since yesterday afternoon. It wasn't there in the nest box yesterday morning when I checked, so she must have laid it sometime in the afternoon or the evening.
Ok I'll have my cows talk to your alpacas. What if they start to copy your alpacas and don't get out of the barn?
We used to put the hay in the barn and also leave 1 bale of hay outside so they can choose where they want to eat. They almost always are outside, sometimes covered in snow or ice.
Ok I'll have my cows talk to your alpacas. What if they start to copy your alpacas and don't get out of the barn?
We used to put the hay in the barn and also leave 1 bale of hay outside so they can choose where they want to eat. They almost always are outside, sometimes covered in snow or ice.
Bruce
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I have thought that maybe they need their hay to be outside so they would have to go out to eat. They have 2 wall hung feeders in their alley. They poop and pee right underneath them.
