Barbara, I bet she thought she's died and gone to heaven! Good stories, all of them...

 Quote: betty landercasp

Well, I had a basset hound that hunted up 48 hard boiled eggs one Easter evening.
I thought she would die, shells and all were eaten along with some chocolate eggs and jelly beans, the chocolate eggs (cadbury eggs) even had foil.

She produced sulfur farts for a week and she slept a lot and drank a lot of water.
Otherwise, she was just fine. Didn't even vomit, and no diarrhea.

Priceless! " ... shells and all were eaten along with some chocolate eggs and jelly beans, the chocolate eggs (cadbury eggs) even had foil..."

 Quote: michael_wise

I'd just be very proactive about getting her outside often so she doesn't **** up the house.

Otherwise, she'll be fine. The nutrient binding problem is going to be more of a chronic feeding thing, and not an ODing problem like this.

Big ditto.

 Quote: barbara schuler

.... the carpets are all as "clean" as they were when I went to bed. ....

I'm pretty surprised about no diarrhea from all the yolks. Good news!

 Quote: Betty Landercasp

Well, I had a basset hound that hunted up 48 hard boiled eggs one Easter evening.
I thought she would die, shells and all were eaten along with some chocolate eggs and jelly beans, the chocolate eggs (cadbury eggs) even had foil.

She produced sulfur farts for a week and she slept a lot and drank a lot of water.
Otherwise, she was just fine. Didn't even vomit, and no diarrhea.

I can't match that, but I had a newf growing up that followed the 'easter bunny' (Dad) one year while he was hiding eggs. Kids went to hunt the 24 hard boiled and dyed eggs. Nothing was found. Dad kept saying 'oh, well, maybe you should look over THERE.....'. Nothing. Finally we noticed some of the shrink wrap plasticy things, and a dog that kept belching.... yeah, thanks Rampage...

He also suffered no ill effects. Had room-clearing gas for quite awhile though. After that year, dogs stayed INSIDE until all eggs were accounted for.

I've just come in from culling 11/12 hens... lost count to be honest - it was sooo darn hot outside! I had a "chicken breakdown" the other day while cleaning the coop... too much heat, too many chickens, too much chicken poop, too much money being spent on chicken feed, etc... (We were up to 32 including 3 month old guys...) I had HAD IT!!

Doug came home that day and I asked him if he knew what the definition of insanity was, and of course, he gave me the correct answer. But I said "Nope... it is ME going to the feed store and buying 200 pounds of chicken feed, coming home filling the feeders, chickens eating 200 pounds of feed and then laying copious amounts of eggs which I then hardboil and FEED BACK TO THE DAMN CHICKENS!!!!!!" We had so many freekin' eggs i couldn't sell them all and didn't really want to be in the egg business anyway!!

Okay, I'm calmer now. Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

We now have a reasonable sized flock which includes 6 2 month old Americaunas which will lay beautiful blue and green eggs in a few more months.

There will be NO more chickens added. Period.

LOL Barbara... that's too funny. I'm seriously thinking about getting "A" cow, maybe two.

I remember when you started, how small you started out and was actually thinking about you and your chickens. I just want a couple to graze during the summer and butcher in the fall.

Cattle Rancher is not in my future job goal but I can now see how the insanity starts. Your flock sounds much more manageable now.

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There will be NO more chickens added. Period

Look at it as raising your own dog food.