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Hi Keepers, the most viewed post on this site is Egg Bound Treatment Works, it has also had the most responses or replies,  this came through yesterday and I wanted to share it with you all, incase you didn’t see it in the reply section, it was posted by Penny. Penny’s Post I have just had [...]

Eggs!

Hi there keepers, apologies for lack of added content lately, I’ve been busy making the New Zealand public laugh. Something that has been brought to my attention lately is eggs, well more the freshness of eggs, how long will they last? etc. I find that in itself and interesting question, in terms of we seem [...]

Back in the Eggs

Well it seems the winter has passed, the daffodils are starting to reach for the sun, and the first one popped it’s face out today, the other sign is,  two of the shavers have started laying again. Its been a while since I found a brown egg in the nest box, a good few months. [...]

Egg Bound or Trapped Egg Symptoms.

Hi there keepers, I have noticed in the search engine for this site, that quite a few people type in, ‘ How can you tell if a chicken is eggbound? ‘, or simular. I can only tell you how I detected ours were. The first sign and posssibly the most obvious, was that the affected [...]

Egg Bound Chicken Treatment

Hi there, I am re-posting the entry on egg bound chickens as the prevoius title didn’t contain the word chicken, I hope it is of help to you and your hens. After catching the afflicted hen, and placing her under your arm like a rugby ball, head out the back, bum facing up, try the [...]

The Joy Of Eggs

Hi there readers, eggs eggs eggs, I cannot say enough about the quality of the eggs our hens produce, as I’m sure other keepers will relate, the taste, colour and nutrience is far above the mass produced varieties that fill our supermarket shelves. I have written previously of the health qualities of the home grown [...]

The Smallest Egg

Well, the hens seemed to have settled back into the run, after now having spent a whole week on the inside, as I said in a prevoius post, we did have some escapees, but all holes have been sercured. I’ve been meaning to post the following picture for a while, it’s of one of the [...]

Eggbound Hen

An eggbound hen is the condition suffered by a hen when the egg  is stuck, it may be trapped for several reasons, it could be that the egg is very large, has been broken or the egg shell is soft, either way it is very difficult for the hen to reslove this issue. After reading severals [...]

Chicken Feed

When it comes to eating, we have found that our chickens will try anything once, your toes, fingers, hair, buttons, infact anything small enough to fit in their beaks, and more often than not, pieces of bread that are far too big to fit into their beaks, but they’ll try anyway. Since getting our chickens we [...]

Painted Eggs

Hi there keepers, does anyone still give painted eggs for easter? do you remember making them as a kid? would you be considered a cheapskate if you gave a child a painted boiled egg? I think they look great, and are much more of a gift than a bought chocolate one, not that I don’t [...]