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Gave my hens some scrambled eggs for national poultry day as a way of saying thanks. They loved em but I don't think they cared about the day

Sounds good thanks

This sounds great think I will give it a try. How many cubes for 11 hens?

Oh man I eat over a dozen a week. Wonder if that is still moderation?

I have 2 eggs every morning and then 2 hand boiled for break at 9:30 love it

Should be but I'm with lazy Gardner should have a back up just in case. Give a friend a dozen or so eggs just to check the water supply

Golden girl inn?

I have 5 barred rocks 5 R.I.Rs and on SS she has been laying for maybe2 or 3 months now and she definitely lays a smaller egg than the rest. Pretty easy to spot the SS egg. She is also makes way more noise than the others

Welcome to BYC. Great info here. Just be ready for a fine coating of dust on everything. I also raised thee feeder and waterer up on a brick so they wouldn't poop in it. Good luck

not sure if right place to post but it's 60 degrees in Wisconsin in February I think my chickens love the warmth as much as I do

Built a box and just use Wood ash. When the ground is not frozen they make their own in the dirt

I have 2 hard boiled eggs every day during the week. I started to save the shells my question is can I feed them back as is? I already crushed them by hand so the size is pretty small. Any reason they would need to be cooked?

Little free range time but do have a covered run that is 25 by 35ft that they always have access to since I leave the pop door open all the time. Unless it's really cold really cold being below -10 so they are out of the coop for most of daylight hours

I installed a timer switch hooked up to a porcelain fixture for supplemental light in the winter. A gfci outlet to plug in water heater.

The butt feathers are missing on the barred rock but not the rir. They are 9 months old. Do not heat the coop and is well vented. 11 birds in a 10ft by 8ft coop. I built a dust bath for them in the coop filled with wood ash and d.e. they also have oyster shells on the side. Their bottoms are...