Why, when I've just given them a lovely bowl of fresh water, another of hot mash and filled up their feeding pot, do they eat snow?Because their brains don't take up much room maybe?
You know the way things shrink in the cold? (Yes you do!) This was the offering of our Garnet who usually lays a huge long torpedo shaped dark egg. This minute offering had nothing in but a membrane with a tiny smear of yolk.
They are still laying sporadically. It's their second winter as layers and we usually get 2 a day, sometimes 3 though we have one day without an egg at all. Maybe we should think of adding a couple of PoLs to the flock next spring?
