Ro, My 14 yr old is a rooster. My old red silkie hen who made it to 13 laid 2-4 eggs a week. The old barred rocks laid 2-3 gigantic, jumbo eggs a week. Sometimes more. When you are not home, your chickens are in a cage in the house. When you are home and awake, your chicken wears her/his diaper. The diaper pouches are big enough to lay an egg in. It will be laid in their droppings if they have the diaper on when they lay it. You'll change the bag in the diaper about every hour, hour and a half. Birds defecate about every 20 min. in an average. It sounds like more bother than it is. Because chickens are messy with their feed you will want to get a few binder clips to put cardboard on the outside of the cage where their food and water dishes are.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
rainbowsilkies MI
From: Ro <rosewood513@comcast.net>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Do any of you let your hens roost outside in the trees?/Cathryn
Cathryn, when you bring your hen in is it only for the night during the winter or is it all day and do you use diapers on her.
I was just reading about this. When I have only one hen left I do to want it to die of loneliness and was wondering if I can let her live indoors. I was reading about people who have house chickens. I have seen videos and they are clean people, they use diapers etc. But how would you know when it need to lay and egg, or they probably have stopped, is you 14 y/o silkie still laying? this fascinates me. I am not poking fun I am serious.
Thanks Ro
Judy, I have a 14 year old silkie who will get to winter in the mudroom again. Blueberi is a very old bearded, lavender silkie, who creaks when he walks, is senile, spoiled, and off spring from my originals I bought 16+ years ago. I had a barred rock that made it to 16 and one to 13. A few of my silkies have made it to old age, but the show silkies seem to live 4-8-9 years then pass on. I worked hard at changing that only to have purina wipe out all the really good ones. The oldies get a heater and huge boxes that I rotate with clean ones I bring home from school.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
rainbowsilkies MI
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