Yay!! Our chooks are finally laying. Gran-Nan had the trick - place a fake egg in their nesting box....then wait one night. Then BINGO!! 3 eggs for a long weekend... That equals a big cooked breakfast for Anzac Day holiday for the 3 big kids!
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A lesson .......
These days it is so easy to get everything you want instantly. Yes. i could have bought point-of-lay hens but i didn't. I wanted my children to learn something. And that something was delayed gratification. They had to learn to care for the chicks from 1 day old and feed, water and nurture them. To clip their wings so they wouldn't fly the coup, to build a nesting box, so many things over the last 5months and today they were rewarded. A bit like life really.....and raising children. How do you teach your children about delayed gratification? And is this important to you?
Love it! Very well said Christy! It is quite a difficult lesson to teach (& learn) in today's society...thanks for reminding me! xx
ReplyDeleteIt's so exciting getting their first eggs - I get excited with each new hen laying. We also don't buy our hens POL, but have to wait as well - you are brave though buying day old -how did you go about caring for them? (I want to give it a go one day)
ReplyDeleteSo true about delayed gratification - we also make our children wait for many things.
Hope you're having a great week
Renata :)
Our laundry became the chick-room!! we raised them over summer so it wasn't as difficult with heat control. We just used a heat lamp over a cardboard box for the first 6 weeks. That worked really well - a good holiday project cos they're food and water needed replenishing often! From 4 weeks they had some time outside free ranging during sunny days. So it wasn't too difficult and we didn't have any fatalities :D (i thought there may be!) Hope you give it a go some day - it was really fun!
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