Hello, thanks for initiating this conversation! I would like to know if Purina offers any non-GMO or Organic/pesticide-free feed? I make a point of buying organic food for myself and my family and don't want my own eggs to be contaminated with chemical additives, pesticides, or GMO grains from...
Thank you, I will try the eggs. The chicks are thankfully eating on their own (I kept them in a brooder for 1/2 day before the adoption to make sure they knew to eat from that feeder). I hope the mom will go for the boiled eggs and yogurt. She was eating some of their chick food but I guess...
Ok. I guess that makes sense. I do let the bigger hens forage but the chicks could easily slip through fences. And I thought they were supposed to be eating their chick food? If mother hen was still eating her pellets I wouldn't be so worried, but she doesn't seem to be eating anything at all...
I'm a relatively new chicken keeper and have only three hens. One went broody this summer (no rooster). After research, I decided to get her two day-old chicks because she rarely left the nest. She took to the chicks just fine.
However, now, days after the "adoption" all the hen dis was...