Here are pictures. Sorry it took so long. I worked the past few days and didn't get the chance. Thank you for looking at them. I wasn't sure if you needed particular pictures so if there is something that you don't see that you were looking for let me know.
I will post pictures tomorrow. Haven't offered oyster shells, but will. Why stop the scraps? It is worth a try for sure. Is it just so they eat more feed/balanced diet?
We live in the desert and there are a lot of predators -bobcats/coyotes etc. Initially I thought they might have been scared...
We live in Arizona so it is still pretty light here. They don't free range (we are in a desert and there are so many predators).
Have not checked them for lice or mites or wormed them recently. Will check. Thanks!
We have had chickens for about 5 years so I know they go through periods of time when they don’t lay much (weather/moulting etc.) but we have not had a single egg in about 3 months. We have two sets of chickens - 3 who are 1.5 years old and 6 who are 8 months old. The ones that are older had...
When our temperatures hit 114 this year we had several chickens die in one day. Last year something similar happened when it got really hot so this year we put up a mist system, but the ground was becoming very soggy and stinky so we only had it on intermittently.
We need to figure out a good...