Re: No more shell-less eggs!!!

From: Martyn (bill_at_Microsoft.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:53:45 +0100

"Jay" <j_green156@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Martyn" <bill@Microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > On Sunday they were out in the garden and couldn't get back into their
run
> > because the door had shut. When I went to open the door one of them
> > scrambled past me as fast as she possibly could, and jumped into their
> > little shed, and squatted immediatelly in the corner where she always
> lays.
> > 15 minutes later she came outside and she's laid me a rather long,
> squashed
> > egg. I think she didn't want to lay in the garden; she must have had her
> > legs crossed, waiting for me to let her in.
> >
> What, squashed as in broken and flat? or just an odd shape?
> How lovely to know that she really wants to lay in that same place.
> I bet your ex battery hens are loving life with you now.
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> Jay
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Just an odd shape; I've had a few very large ones that look they're made of
two odd halves, squashed together.

Yes, I think they're learning to be chickens quite well now.
The runner-ducks are still very nervous and keep their distance from me, but
the hens come running to me which is great.
(they're not good at running yet, more stumbling/flapping as fast as they
can)

Martyn

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