Rural Gardening: Egg Pecking, 1 by fauna4flora

fauna4flora wrote:
Cool! We have a 15 gallon or so square plastic planter that we cut one side out in their coop. We put it there for additional shade, but they all jump up on it, too! You guys have such great input- thank you.

Yes, indeed haystack I love all my girls (and my guys). They all have names. And I haven't hung out here before because I had a LOT of embarassing mistakes. Gosh, picking, raiding opossums, hawks, yound guineas that just plain ran off, chick that was supposed to be a hen turned out to be a rooster.....you name it. These girls are from my second batch of chicks that I raised (only the rooster is left from the 1st batch) Watch out for brown leg horns. She is my second picker (they are a nervous breed I am told.) She is currently seperated from the others with a second rooster awaiting a new coop, and I am hoping now that she is older and will have lots of space she won't pick anymore. I will have a brand spanking new roomy coop and will have to fill it up with more hens!!!!!

Anyone have an Americauna that laid a yellow egg, or an easter egger that laid a pink egg? That would be so much fun to have!

Here is a pic of some of my chix- on weekends we sometimes let them have a day to dust bath and roam.