I don't know how any of you guys live in normal life. I work at home and my work comes to me. My groceries come to me. I literally am living a new world order life already. But on the egg note! My birdies are going to start laying eggs in about 3 weeks, I am so excited! And it seems like perfect timing since eggs are so expensive.
Go hens! Hey, watch your chicken food. I had been feeding mine what was supposed to be a good layer feed. They stopped laying completely and didn't seem to be feeling well. We switched their food to a mix of scratch grains with just a fraction of the feed and they're laying their butts off again and are obviously feeling perkier.
I learned the hard way not to free range. I live way out in the country. There are many predators out here - hawks, foxes, weasels, bears and, worst of all, neighbors' dogs allowed to wander around. It's pretty devastating to find a flock of 10 hens and the poor rooster who tried to defend them all killed by a dog or other predators. They now stay in their fence with an electric fence around and outside of that.
I don't know how any of you guys live in normal life. I work at home and my work comes to me. My groceries come to me. I literally am living a new world order life already. But on the egg note! My birdies are going to start laying eggs in about 3 weeks, I am so excited! And it seems like perfect timing since eggs are so expensive.
Go hens! Hey, watch your chicken food. I had been feeding mine what was supposed to be a good layer feed. They stopped laying completely and didn't seem to be feeling well. We switched their food to a mix of scratch grains with just a fraction of the feed and they're laying their butts off again and are obviously feeling perkier.
Will your chickens free range? I heard that some will not?
I learned the hard way not to free range. I live way out in the country. There are many predators out here - hawks, foxes, weasels, bears and, worst of all, neighbors' dogs allowed to wander around. It's pretty devastating to find a flock of 10 hens and the poor rooster who tried to defend them all killed by a dog or other predators. They now stay in their fence with an electric fence around and outside of that.