12.13.09
December 13, 2009
Double yoke eggs: Supposedly, chickens will lay off of egg laying when the days get shorter in December, but our hens seem to have picked up the pace. Now we are getting double yoke eggs every so often. We have been letting them free range all Summer, when I first bought them scratch this Fall, they would not even eat it. Now that the green things are getting harder to find, they finally started to peck at it very lightly. Last week, I bought them some Purina Layena laying pellets, they would not eat that either, until I dicovered from a neighbor that they like it better if you mix it with water first. They are still free ranging, but they seem to like the Layena mixed with egg shells from breakfast and grease, with warm water; they certainly deserve the special attention after the double yoke eggs!
