Recent content by Jay and Mic

"You need at least three eggshells for each hen a day" That's the rub, isn't it.

We're a bit short of oysters down here in Cape Town. Or at least cheep oyster shells (I know, that was a cheep pun). Can I use any shells from the beach, e.g. mussels, abalone, whatever. Will the salt be a problem? Jay

I promise. I'll be tiptoeing on egg-shells.

Does it have to be oyster shells? Can't I just go to the sea and get any shells, like mussles or abalone? I'm a bit short on oysters here :)

No chance. Tarental are a pest here. Like egyptian geese.

We have ex-factory layers before, and ex-factory-layers-turned-out-to-be-broilers, which we sold yesterday. Now we're off to get our first real chickens - 10 Lohmanns plus rooster. I think we're getting ripped off, but it all got a bit complicated :) We live on our farm (breeding cattle) just...

Hi. Just doing the newbie thing. We're just south of Malmesbury, Western Cape. We started keeping chickens as natural pest controllers for our orchard. We've had one batch of ex-factory layers, which did well. When they "expired " we got some more, we thought, but they turned out to be broilers...