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Friday, April 6, 2012

It Figures

Why is it that every time I get some good egg trades going, the hens mysteriously quit laying? Since my last post on Monday (Trade Network 2012 (Craigslist Chronicles)) I have collected a grand total of thirteen eggs. In the two days before that, I collected twenty-eight.


Maybe the hens put their pointy little heads together and decided to hold out on me for a bigger piece of the action. They all want massages, too. Maybe my chickens are organizing (did you ever see Chicken Run? I love that movie).

Maybe they are just laying their eggs in the blackberry bushes now that it's warmer out. Time to lock them up in the coop for a few days until they get the hang of things again.

6 comments:

Laura said...

If some of them are first year hens, they could be moulting. My cochins are, and they were hatched in May, last year. I just bumped their protein, which should help them get through it faster.

Otherwise, I think you've got a union organizer in their midst!!

Aimee said...

Laura, the majority are first years! Thanks for the clue.

Maven said...

I think I read somewhere that adding fenugreek seed to their feed it might stimulate egg laying.

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