You can find these ingredients in our Nutrena Naturewise feeds.Įggs are 75 percent water, so having a clean, fresh source available to your birds at all times will help keep them happy, healthy, and laying. These additives help keep your birds’ digestive tracts healthy, support healthy growth, and benefit the immune system. These nutrients include carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins, as well as amino acids.Įxtra ingredients that benefit your hens include enzymes, probiotics, essential oils, and yeast culture. A good layer ration should support egg-laying and supply essential nutrients that are not easy to find in nature. They also get activity while looking for bugs, worms, and other tasty goodies!Ī good commercial diet should provide a large majority of what your birds eat.
Your birds’ diet influences the content of their eggs.įree ranging helps your birds produce eggs with better nutritional content, including higher levels of vitamins A, D, and E omega-3 fatty acids and deep orange-yellow yolks from beta carotene. Henderson’s Breed Chart online provides more information on chicken breeds and their laying abilities.ĭid you know that egg quality is closely linked to diet? Many people assume that brown eggs are healthier than white eggs, but shell color makes no difference in the quality of the egg.They include ISA Browns, Red Stars, Gold Stars, and Amberlinks. Hybrids offer high-powered laying ability because they are crosses between two pure breeds that are good layers.They produce a good number of eggs over their lifetimes. Heritage, dual-purpose breeds, including Orpingtons, Plymouth Rocks, Australorps, and Wyandottes, are bred for both meat and eggs.Certain breeds or hybrid strains can produce large numbers of eggs. The breed you choose is related to the number of eggs you can expect per bird. Pop your Cozy Dinkum into the base of the egg, we put down some shredded paper first to make it comfy.You love getting tasty eggs from your hens, so how can you keep them healthy, happy, and laying? There are a number of factors that can influence how many eggs a hen lays in her lifetime. If you decide to leave the inside of the egg unpainted like we did, double check that the glue has sealed the newspaper print by rubbing your finger over the inside, if needed add another coat of the glue mixture to the inside and allow to dry to prevent the ink from transferring to your Cozy Dinkum. Use a box cutter to cut the balloon in half horizontally. Use scissors to cut off the knot in the balloon to deflate it, and then decorate your egg! We used paint and dot stickers to create a pattern on ours.
Allow the Papier mâché to dry for 24 hours, or until it feels hard, with no give when you push on it.
We added all of our final layers at the same time rather than drying in between. Overlap the newspaper and make sure you cover the whole balloon.Īllow the first layer to dry, then add another 3 layers to the balloon, alternating brown paper and newspaper to make it easier to see which sections need to be covered. Working in sections, use the paintbrush to paint glue mixture on the balloon, then add strips of newspaper, coating with more glue over the top and smoothing out the wrinkles. Mix the 2 together in an old bowl with a paint brush until well combined.īlow up the balloon so that it is large enough to fit your Cozy Dinkum inside – we made ours about 26cm high. Tear up the newspaper and brown paper into strips about 2-3 cm wide and 10cm long, then make up a mixture of white glue and water at a ratio of 2 parts glue to 1 part water. It’s time to get cracking on this cozy Easter craft!
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