Today I introduced mealworms to my 3-week old chicks. They've been getting grit for several days now. At first they were frightened, then uncertain, then timidly curious, but finally the rush was on! Tomorrow we are moving them from the house to the outside brooder, so I wanted to give them...
Just want to say that even though our temps have been in the high 90s for weeks now (with the exception of a cold snap recently for 3 or 4 days where we were "only " in the upper 80's), egg production has not dropped off this summer as it usually does. We have been putting bottles of frozen...
Thank you for the visuals! I don't feed straight whole corn, but I do scatter some mixed-grain scratch out every afternoon very thinly in a grassy area so they get exercise going after it. How much of that should they get a day, do you think? I'm probably giving them too much, about two cups for...