Dang dog!

Scottsquatch

Scottsquatch

Chameleon Enthusiast
So, my dog had to stand up on hos hind legs to reach the shelf where I am storing all of my cham supplies till my reptile room is ready. He pulled down all three jars of my supplements and chewed them up. He ate half of the contents of each jar too. I bet he gets the shits tonight. What a knucklehead!
 
Did he eat any with calcium in them? He may actually get constipated of he did
 
My dog has gotten into meal worms and knocked over my bucket of eco earth, that's what I get for having a beagle, basset, healer mix! Not to mention the time my sisters beagle chewed up my computer mouse on my bed, got battery acid all over my pillow, threw it up on my mattress,then ate it. Sometimes I wonder why I even keep getting more animals lol. But that's nothing compared to the time I was watching one of our chicks hatch and the brood hen walked up ripped it out of the egg and ate it while it was still alive. Only one chick survived that massacre, but now Nuggets my little baby!
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Andee said:
That moment when mom's are just bad mom's.... XD But amazingly it usually only happens their first litter/brood or with sick or poor conditions.
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Yeah, none of the hens have even laid any eggs or sat in their boxes for 2 months now. They're lazy little things.
 
Have you had good warm weather and sunlight? I have learned with hens for some reason that is important with egg production. Otherwise what are you feeding? (Sad thing is I don't have hens and I probably know more than I will ever need to XD)
 
Andee said:
Have you had good warm weather and sunlight? I have learned with hens for some reason that is important with egg production. Otherwise what are you feeding? (Sad thing is I don't have hens and I probably know more than I will ever need to XD)
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I've kept chickens for 6 years now, everyone of our hens have just eventually stopped laying eggs. Once the hen highest in the pecking order stops, they all stop. We can have them lay for 11 months out of the year everyday, then one day they'll just change their mind. That's just the way chickens are lol. I got one egg two months ago and that was the last they laid. They're out 24/7 because they refuse to go in the coop and sleep on top of it. We live in southern Missouri so it's been extremely sunshiny and warm all summer. They eat layer crumbles mixed with fancy scratch. I think you could ask anyone with chickens and they will tell you that they have at least one lazy hen.
 
I wonder if they are just older now? And passed the age of laying?

Are you giving them any other type of food? Like veggie scraps? Insects etc? I honestly would hugely recommend that. I have noticed when adding protein and extra veggies most people can get hens to start laying if it isn't a sickness or age related issue. Or just general temps etc.
 
Andee said:
I wonder if they are just older now? And passed the age of laying?

Are you giving them any other type of food? Like veggie scraps? Insects etc? I honestly would hugely recommend that. I have noticed when adding protein and extra veggies most people can get hens to start laying if it isn't a sickness or age related issue. Or just general temps etc.
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Trust me when I say I have the most spoiled chickens you will ever meet. We buy them fresh veggies,fenced in a pretty big area of our back yard for them, I do everything possible for my animals. They're only 9 months old, my older hens passed away, all from different things, only two were from an egg laying issue
 
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2 hens, a rooster, and one unsexed chick. We would have 8 all together but only about 1/3 of hatchling chicks survive. It's pretty uncommon to have a chicken live over 10 years because of the different diseases and health issues they can get. I feel the chick will be a lot healthier then it's parents because it didn't come from a big company like her parents did.
 
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