Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Eggs in (nearly) full production

We have fought our way up to a dozen eggs. Both Maran's are definitely laying and Blinky has been quite productive, we are still unsure if Pinky (the low bird in the pecking order) is laying as we have yet to see 2 green eggs on the same day.

The cool thing is that when Clyde (alpha chicken that survived a Kai attack at a young age) started laying she used the box. Blinky who had previously been dropping her eggs in the dirt at the very back of the coop promptly noticed and started laying there as well. This is great because the box has a hinge lid and we can collect the eggs from the outside of the coop, when previously I would wade through the entire coop trying to dodge turds to get the egg.

The downside is that they keep knocking out all the hay bedding we put in the box and drop the eggs right on the wood base. This tends to produce a higher rate of slightly cracked eggs that usually get consumed immediately. My pending fix is gluing down some of that rubber drawer padding that people use for their silverware drawers.

1 Comments:

Blogger MacGyver said...

Yes the 5 brown ones are Maran eggs.

June 26, 2012 at 9:10 PM  

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