Start a maggot farm. They are usually going after the protein and trace elements that they are not getting from bagged food rather than calcium.
5 gallon bucket with a ring of small holes drilled in the bottom edge, and some larger holes drilled in the top for flies to enter. Throw some old meat in there and give it a few weeks.
Doing 16% protein pellets with calcium supplement. Every morning they get added mealworms, plus some bread. Scratch twice per day, dinner scraps including protein from my plate. I think they're spoiled and need calcium or stewing. Yeah?
I've heard of blowing the inside out of an egg and filling with hot sauce then replace in the nest. Also putting in a porcelain egg or white golf ball into the nest.
You can add to your egg box a slight incline so that the egg rolls away into a small cache with wire across the top for you to see to collect. Saw this ages ago before I got chickens. It's simple enough to rig up and it will prevent you from having to off a chicken that (feels like) takes forever to get to egg laying age!
Cool illustration. Thanks for that. I think I may have to build a new box. My current one, though I thought it had enough angle, doesn't seem to. That eggs linger.
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eat that chicken. it'll probably be the best tasting chicken you ever had seeing as how it lived on a diet of protein instead of scratching around in it's own shit looking for a kernel of corn. grill it so the rest of the chickens can smell it and learn to deliver every morning and not hold out. gotta keep your pimp hand strong.
i was thinking about your chicken some more and it occurred to me that this particular chicken also does nothing but further complicate the 'which came first the chicken or the egg' argument and a 'why not both' reply just angers me. that chicken is dividing by zero and must be eliminated, with extreme prejudice.
With eggs showing up roughly 340 million or so years ago, and the first chickens evolving at around 58 thousand years ago at the earliest, it’s a safe bet to say the egg came first.
Good point sir. That, in reality, is the truest problem occurring out back. Eggs are great, and I'll kill a bird for stealing from me. But violating the rule of mathematics and threatening all of us with a circular implosion of space-time is definitely worse.
If I knew for sure which one it was, I'd probably just off it. As it is, gonna try calcium supplement while doing some detective work. Looking for a beak with dried yolk on it.
Maybe it's lacking in calcium? If you are feeding it well then maybe just chop its head off. 1 Rooster to around 10 hens, or in my experience, a strong big hen can stop this stress in your chooks. Good luck
Feeding to y low of protein can cause weird behavior too. Picking at each other, eating feathers, eating... Give them extra protein and calcium, see if it quits. But, once they learn that trick they usually continue. The others learn too...
Bought some calcium supplemented feed earlier. They get tons of protein. Little buddies are in trial for sure. Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Cheers!
Carbon dioxide dissolved into the ocean, as it often does. Tiny sea life used it to make seashells. They died and the seashells sank to the ocean floor. The layer was compressed and became carbonaceous rock like limestone.
Given that Birkeland Currents fluctuate in their energy between 105 and 106 Ampères over the course of a week, can you explain why that doesn't make gravity 10x stronger, under your theory?
You wanted to know where the mass increase originated from. The mechanism itself is currently not fully understood. You see, the planets core is a ball of electric plasma, not iron. Vlf supports this. Couple that with the fact the continents fit like a puzzle if you make the planet smaller and with how water gets created(fuse h and o) and you have arrived at a reasonable explanation. Now, that the ballooning up is the fruit of the core ballooning, or electricity fusing h and o to water added the extra mass, thats not fully understood.
The birkeland current is only the power cable, not the machine itself.
You see, the planets core is a ball of electric plasma, not iron. Vlf supports this.
Can you link to some of this evidence?
the ballooning up is the fruit of the core ballooning, or electricity fusing h and o to water added the extra mass,
Are you saying the earth has hydrogen and oxygen floating around, that it gets fused by energy from the sun via Birkeland Currents, and that once fused the hydrogen and oxygen somehow have more mass than before?
No. I mean matter comes from electricity. Create hydrogen, it floats away, o2 too. Water doesnt. Also answers why there is so much water in the crust.
I dont link. You can find the boiling point of iron with core temps and reflect on the fact that plasma reflects radiowaves and think it out for yourself while looking at earthqake patterns.
Near or in the core. Its why oil is still available. There was no life 5 kilometres below the ocean floor to be the source of oil. Or 3000m under mountains, et cetera.
Epictetus_Hierapolis ago
Start a maggot farm. They are usually going after the protein and trace elements that they are not getting from bagged food rather than calcium.
5 gallon bucket with a ring of small holes drilled in the bottom edge, and some larger holes drilled in the top for flies to enter. Throw some old meat in there and give it a few weeks.
calfag ago
Epic tip. Thank you.
Asgardener ago
What else are you feeding your chicken? It might be craving some protein.
calfag ago
Doing 16% protein pellets with calcium supplement. Every morning they get added mealworms, plus some bread. Scratch twice per day, dinner scraps including protein from my plate. I think they're spoiled and need calcium or stewing. Yeah?
TinyBunch ago
I've heard of blowing the inside out of an egg and filling with hot sauce then replace in the nest. Also putting in a porcelain egg or white golf ball into the nest.
I agree with adding calcium.
calfag ago
Chatted with the folks at Tractor Supply, and they all concur that I should try calcium first. Give it a bit, then time to stew.
Warnos44 ago
There's another solution no one mentioned.
You can add to your egg box a slight incline so that the egg rolls away into a small cache with wire across the top for you to see to collect. Saw this ages ago before I got chickens. It's simple enough to rig up and it will prevent you from having to off a chicken that (feels like) takes forever to get to egg laying age!
calfag ago
Cool illustration. Thanks for that. I think I may have to build a new box. My current one, though I thought it had enough angle, doesn't seem to. That eggs linger.
Warnos44 ago
No problem. I prefer this set up as it prevents poop on the eggs!
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LightningAndTheSun ago
This is what happens when a chicken gets a hold of eggs as scraps of food. It learns how good eggs taste and eats its own.
Butcher it and get a new one and make sure it never learns how good the eggs are.
mrgreenjeans9 ago
eat that chicken. it'll probably be the best tasting chicken you ever had seeing as how it lived on a diet of protein instead of scratching around in it's own shit looking for a kernel of corn. grill it so the rest of the chickens can smell it and learn to deliver every morning and not hold out. gotta keep your pimp hand strong.
calfag ago
That's my favorite tip so far. Cheers!
mrgreenjeans9 ago
i was thinking about your chicken some more and it occurred to me that this particular chicken also does nothing but further complicate the 'which came first the chicken or the egg' argument and a 'why not both' reply just angers me. that chicken is dividing by zero and must be eliminated, with extreme prejudice.
Frowning_Buffalo ago
With eggs showing up roughly 340 million or so years ago, and the first chickens evolving at around 58 thousand years ago at the earliest, it’s a safe bet to say the egg came first.
calfag ago
Good point sir. That, in reality, is the truest problem occurring out back. Eggs are great, and I'll kill a bird for stealing from me. But violating the rule of mathematics and threatening all of us with a circular implosion of space-time is definitely worse.
Sosacms ago
2x4 to the head. That's how my grandpa solved the problem of his pig eating it's babies as they were being born.
Jewed ago
Smart pig didn't want to sustain its life in hell.
calfag ago
Interesting. Crazy part is baby pigs look like pigs.
Ginger_Snaps ago
Eat that chicken. Quick. Before they all start. NO CORRECTING THIS BEHAVIOR.
i_am_texas_charlie ago
Partner the eggs with some bacon and hashbrowns, obviously.
BushChuck ago
Kill it.
calfag ago
Probably gonna have to. Oh well. TBD...
BushChuck ago
It's like a computer, in a way.
You can spend days trying to fix some bullshit. Or you can spend 20 minutes reformatting.
calfag ago
If I knew for sure which one it was, I'd probably just off it. As it is, gonna try calcium supplement while doing some detective work. Looking for a beak with dried yolk on it.
Jewed ago
Look for sticky egg on its beak.
calfag ago
Cheers Jewed. Would hate to kill the wrong one...
SeanBox ago
Build a drop box under the nest to catch the egg where they can’t get to it.
calfag ago
Thanks, tried that though. Smart little shit traps it in there and eats it.
SeanBox ago
Ya, I’m not %100 on the logistics or if it’s even possible. Just spitballing.
Corpse_washer ago
Calcium deficiency.
Moikd ago
Maybe it's lacking in calcium? If you are feeding it well then maybe just chop its head off. 1 Rooster to around 10 hens, or in my experience, a strong big hen can stop this stress in your chooks. Good luck
calfag ago
Thought I was feeding it well. Will try adding calcium to see if it stops.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
My understanding is once they realize their eggs are food you can't stop them.
Eat it and start over. u/Intheknow2 is probably right about ensuring good calcium for the new birds.
calfag ago
Unfortunately, that is my understanding too. Gonna try calcium first. If it persists, time to put the old bird in the slow cooker...
NamelessCrewmember ago
Feeding to y low of protein can cause weird behavior too. Picking at each other, eating feathers, eating... Give them extra protein and calcium, see if it quits. But, once they learn that trick they usually continue. The others learn too...
calfag ago
Bought some calcium supplemented feed earlier. They get tons of protein. Little buddies are in trial for sure. Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Cheers!
Ginger_Snaps ago
Plug in cooker. One bad apple spoils the bunch.
calfag ago
Totally, slow cooker. With onions, carrots, dunno...more stuff.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
om nom nom
I'm never upset about too much food.
Incidentally, I've never raised chicken, but I've helped raise and I've butchered plenty of quail.
They start laying like 6 weeks after hatching. Food for thought.
ShowMeYourKitties ago
Buy and feed them (crushed) oyster shells
calfag ago
Thank you. I will try that before slaughtering.
Battlefat ago
Your chicken regressed into full oviraptor. Breed it until its progeny’s feathers fall off and are replaced by scales — you will win this war
Dean_Wilhelm_Hawkins ago
Not sure if that's how it works but OP absolutely needs to try
calfag ago
Obviously.
Battlefat ago
Glorious evolution
Diggernicks ago
Kekd
clamhurt_legbeard ago
dinosaurs cant reach their previous sizes in our current atmosphere
the atmosphere was 300x as dense back then
facepaint ago
I understand the atmosphere was a bit denser. But 300x?
HorseIsDead ago
He's full of shit. There was a bit more oxygen. That's it. It was not 300x denser. If it was 300x denser it would have been solid heavy metal.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Yup. It's the only way pterosaurs could fly.
It's the only way a brachiosaurus could pump blood to its head.
It's why so many dinosaurs had powerful tails and small arms.
It's why the entire planet was 70°F and tropical ferns lived at the arctic circle.
And the change to our thin atmosphere is why they died out....
Iheartcatfood ago
Where did all that atmosphere go
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Carbon dioxide dissolved into the ocean, as it often does. Tiny sea life used it to make seashells. They died and the seashells sank to the ocean floor. The layer was compressed and became carbonaceous rock like limestone.
Battlefat ago
Smarter than a pit bull with less empathy. Imprint them at hatching, wreak havok on the dog fight underworld
clamhurt_legbeard ago
lol
Corpse_washer ago
Gravity was 1/3 of todays. Its not the more oxigen or more dense atmosphere.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Can you explain where all the required extra mass of the earth came from?
Corpse_washer ago
From the birkeland current, powering the planet. Increase energy, mass follows.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
A picture of Birkeland Currents
Given that Birkeland Currents fluctuate in their energy between 105 and 106 Ampères over the course of a week, can you explain why that doesn't make gravity 10x stronger, under your theory?
Corpse_washer ago
You wanted to know where the mass increase originated from. The mechanism itself is currently not fully understood. You see, the planets core is a ball of electric plasma, not iron. Vlf supports this. Couple that with the fact the continents fit like a puzzle if you make the planet smaller and with how water gets created(fuse h and o) and you have arrived at a reasonable explanation. Now, that the ballooning up is the fruit of the core ballooning, or electricity fusing h and o to water added the extra mass, thats not fully understood.
The birkeland current is only the power cable, not the machine itself.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Can you link to some of this evidence?
Are you saying the earth has hydrogen and oxygen floating around, that it gets fused by energy from the sun via Birkeland Currents, and that once fused the hydrogen and oxygen somehow have more mass than before?
Corpse_washer ago
No. I mean matter comes from electricity. Create hydrogen, it floats away, o2 too. Water doesnt. Also answers why there is so much water in the crust. I dont link. You can find the boiling point of iron with core temps and reflect on the fact that plasma reflects radiowaves and think it out for yourself while looking at earthqake patterns.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
So it's your opinion matter is being literally created on the earth's surface by electricity?
The same electricity generating gravity via the Birkeland Currents?
Corpse_washer ago
Near or in the core. Its why oil is still available. There was no life 5 kilometres below the ocean floor to be the source of oil. Or 3000m under mountains, et cetera.
WickerMan ago
Dinosaur bodies made the Earth heavier.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
LOL
Where did the dinosaur bodies get their mass?
WickerMan ago
From a star that exploded long before the Sun existed, I was trying to be funny.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
i prefer the other guys answer
he said from smaller dinos they ate
WickerMan ago
I could have went another route. Their bodies turned to stone after the died.
Seventh_Jim ago
From the smaller dinos they ate. How else could they get so big?
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Where did the smaller dinos get their mass?
Seventh_Jim ago
Infinitesimally smaller dinosaurs.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Dinosaurs have a minimum size limit below which they would stop being dinosaurs because they wouldn't have the right anatomy.
Where did the smallest dinosaurs get their mass?
Intheknow2 ago
Calcium
calfag ago
Thank you. Off to Tractor Supply...
Corpse_washer ago
You can simply keep the eggshells from the eggs you use, bake them at 70 celsius and brake it to powder and add to their food.