Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[sarahs]

Hi all

 

We found our first egg today - Yay!

 

Our chooks are free ranging and I found it this evening as I was scouring the garden on the poop scoop run. It's a beautiful speckled brown egg, 40g.

 

So, here's the next question - how do I persuade the girls to lay in the nestbox? They seem happy enough to go to bed in the nest box at night-time, but they go nowhere near the eglu during the day after we let them out of the pen after their breakfast. Should I keep them in the pen for a few days so that Roxy acclimatises?

 

My daughter and I are delighted, we were beginning to wonder if we would see them laying before the springtime.

 

Cheers for now

 

Emily and Sarah

[Redwing]

thats brilliant, I have no advice about the nestbox I am afraid but just wanted to say congrats

[Christian]

Congratulations Emily and Sarah! Wonderful feeling isn't it?

 

I would keep them in the run until lunchtime. Also, put a ping pong ball n the nestbox to encourage her to lay there. It worked for mine when they started laying.

[sarahs]

Update:

 

No egg yesterday, but a beautiful 46g egg this morning, and this time in the nest box, YAY!!!! As you said, such a great feeling indeed (tastes nice too!)

 

Well done Roxy (the random one), who is ravenous more than ever!!

 

No sign of any eggs from Ronnie (the scatty one) but she is not crouching yet.. maybe next week? We hope so!

 

Emily and Sarah