Aren't our Rhode Island Red chookies looking healthy? The girls are awake at the crack of dawn (as you'd expect) and by about 7am they are going berserk. I usually have some food scraps from the night before which I feed the girls. It seems to calm them down.
They went broody a few weeks back and my husband mentioned that when chooks went broody at his place when he was young they'd string them up in a hessian sack until they started laying again. Apparently chooks can go broody for months. While we aren't running an egg factory here it would be a shame to have to buy eggs again!
These girls don't have a rooster (they are prohibited in NSW suburban backyards) so there is no point them nesting.
We tried for a different method (I was dubious about my husband's suggestion). We took the straw out of the laying box and after a couple of weeks of avoiding the box (because it was so uncomfortable) they started to lay again.
I love having the eggs again. Ill have to find the link to the pellet dispenser my husband bought. It's a New Zealand designed and made contraption so they have pellets all day long and pests can't get to the pellets.
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