Thanks for the advice!

Here are couple of pictures - Silkies and eggs (the small ones are from the Silkies).

Tara

“Experience is a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.” - Benjamin Franklin

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To: sf-fowl@yahoogroups.com
From: jennifer@...
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:04:35 -0700
Subject: RE: [sf-fowl] Digest Number 13

Hi Tara,

Fortunately my hens haven’t yet discovered how good theireggs taste, but I looked up the problem in the book, “Storey’sGuide to Raising Chickens,” by Gail Damerow. She says once a chicken getsthe taste for eggs, it’s really hard to break them of the habit and itcan spread to other birds. I guess you’ve figured that out already. She suggestsremoving or debeaking the culprit (I’m not recommending that, just passingon her advice!). She also says they may eat their eggs if bored or if theirrations “allow chickens to satisfy their nutritional too quickly, leavingthem with nothing to do.”

She also suggests discouraging nonlaying activities in the nestby hanging a curtain in front of it to darken it. Cut the curtain into hangingstrips or temporarily pin up one corner, she suggests, so that hens aren’tsuspicious about going in to lay. Good luck!

 

I’d love to see your Silkies. Can you post pics to the SFFowl site?

Jennifer

 

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