I have 5 roof top free range silky fowls in the city. The youngest one started laying 3 weeks ago and every single egg has been a double yolker. That would be 4-5 eggs a week. Her diet consists of a range of healthy oats, wheat,corn,meal worms,bonitia flakes, herbs, crickets and organic veggies...
This is tough....Ideally we want our egg laying chickens to "free range" and be happy...Recently I decided to throw sparrow seed around the chicken coup..thinking this may keep them from actually going inside the coop and taking my silkies food. I'll let you know how that works out...
I have the same problem. I live in Tokyo and have a roof garden on the 4th floor. They are free range and though I was thrilled that stray cats would never be a problem, I never imagined other birds would be ;-( I put three cups of feed in their OPEN cage every morning for two silkies and...