Thanks a million for all those Top Tips... all massively insightful. I'll go and get some of the growers pellets and treat the chickies over the winter. I have to say that the eggs they do lay are really quite large.
On a similar note - the last question - if I get a couple more chickens at...
Thanks for the response!
I think the previous owner said she'd had them for 18 months, so I'd probably put them at the 2-year-old mark. I've had them since the summer and they've been pretty consistent in [not] egg-laying throughout. There's clearly one who produces wrinkled eggs and another...
I'm completely new to this site and pretty new to chickens, having adopted 5 red hens about 3 months ago. They were all apparently healthy and happy (or so their previous owner said) but I've been wondering for a while why I've only been getting one or two eggs a day.
I originally thought...