Search results for query: *

Thank you for all the good advice. For now, I'm thinking of not getting chicks next year and keep the current 9 chickens. When I had 10 hens, they used to give me 7 to 8 eggs a day in late September to early October, so hopefully they'll lay well again next year. Next year, I'll water glass lots...

I wish I could butcher older hens then things will be much simpler. But even butchering an extra cockerel was quite hard on my family and we're too attached to our hens now. They're just darn cute following us around everywhere all the time. So I'll have to sell or give them away which is also...

Yes, now I have a few hens that are not doing as well as others in terms of health and egg laying, I see the point of reducing my flock before the winter comes. Thank you for your advice.

I'm glad you can have fun hatching eggs. Chicks are always darn cute 🥰 I wish I could keep my chickens after they stop laying too. At least I'll keep the one chicken that my family like the most until the end. She has such a bold and funny personality and lays the best. I'm still deciding how...

I wonder if there's a way to find out which method gets the most eggs and uses the least feed. Or maybe whatever you choose it doesn't make much difference? Maybe I'm trying to be too precise.... Do heritage breed usually lay okay until their 2nd molting?

So do you rotate out hens before their first molt? At about 18 months old?

I'm wondering how people manage their flock keeping the good ratio between young and older hens. Chicken feed is expensive here in Canada (28CAD, for 20kg) and I have limited coop space. So I want to replace older chickens with new ones efficiently while maintaining the same flock size. I'm...