Thank you for your advice. Their diet is good and all look good. I check them over all the time making sure no sores or mites. Use DE in their pen and outside area. All the other eggs are beautiful except the ones that suddenly changed from dark brown to white. I crack my eggs separately...
I have noticed my black sex link eggs have turned white. Myself and daughter have noticed that the yellow is speckled with blood and looks like chunks of egg shell or something. She opened one and said it looked cloudy and smelly. It was laid the day before. I have 2 sexlinks so don't know...
Yes, this grocery stores gives to the needy also. This is foods that they take off the shelves after they box up for churches, otherwise it goes into dumpster. What my chickens don't eat also goes into my compost for my gardens. It is amazing how much food is wasted in the US. I think all...
We know our produce manager and they put the veggies and fruits in 55 gal buckets with ice to keep it fresh. We pick it up about 10 am. I sort thru it to get onions, garlic and avocados out of it. A great amount of the food is still good quality. You would not believe all the foods I have...
I use organic crumbles, organic mixed grains, black oil sunflower seeds and organic feather fixer. In their nest I use wood shavings. Also I give them mealworms for protein as I know they need more protein when molting. They are on 18 per cent protein food and I give them greens and fruits...
About a week ago I noticed one chicken sneezing and sounded like coughing. We had our first snow and they were molting. I kept them in their 10x10 pen for a couple of days. Now 3 are now sneezing but no discharge in their nose. They are eating good but it seems like they may all (6) get...
The 10x10 is chain link fencing with fenced top with a tarp over it. That is where they roost, eat and lay eggs. Some don't have many feathers right now and I was wondering if they got soaked in the heavy rain, which they usually get out and get soaked, will they get sick? And yes their pen has...
My chickens are molting and it is raining hard. Should I leave them in 10x10 (6 chickens) or let them out? Also it is going to be in the 30's this week. I enclosed the pen with thick clear plastic and left ventilation gaps for them, They are on feather fixer along with their food
A store manager gave us a large bag of veggie and flower seeds from Burpee and I was wondering since they won't sprout would it hurt my chickens? Burpees are GMO free seeds and I don't think coated with anything.
It gets dark around 6:15pm and light around 7:00am so they aren't getting enough light then. The other 4 chickens are laying every day. Just the 2 that molted aren't laying. Thank you for your advice.
I have 2 coo coo morans ( I don't know how to spell them) but anyway, they molted in Oct. and stopped laying eggs. It is now nearing end of Jan and still no eggs. How long does it take for them to start laying again and is there anything I can give them to start laying? They are fully...