I know, it's a lot of feed. The only reason was that I'd driven miles to get to the feed store on my only day off, and it was the only size they had! If I can feed to the entire flock hopefully I'll get through it soon enough.
I am hearing conflicting opinion over this, so would love to know what anyone thinks. I just bought a 50lb sack of Modesto Organic Chick Starter for my 3 chicks. It's 22% protein and the instructions on the sack say to feed up to 9 weeks. When I told the feed store lady that I would never use...
Thank you so much, this is all very reassuring. 40's does feel pretty arctic to us Californians, I just didn't want to sound too spoiled ;) The chickens are surely feeling the effects of this rain as much as us, so I'll stay hopeful that it's just a weather related lull. :)
Thanks for all your responses. Very insightful. She stopped laying just over a week ago, so hasn't laid an egg at all for at least 8 days. They do free range, and I did think it might be a case of her having a secret nest somewhere - so for 3 of these days I didn't let them out and kept them...
My 6 month old Barred Rock started laying at the beginning of December and had been routinely laying one egg a day since then. However, last week, this suddenly stopped. No eggs. Am I correct to assume that this might be the cold weather causing this? (I'm based in Los Angeles, and we're...
Thanks so much for replying. I believe he's an Ameracauna. He's very handsome, and wasn't cheap so I don't know if this means he's of good stock or not. Is this a breed people are interested in?
I bought 3 'pullets' from a feed store in Malibu that despite assuring me that hardly any of their officially un-sexed chickens turn out to be roosters, one of mine did. Even as a novice, I noticed within a day that he was different to the others, but they wouldn't take him back. So now I'm...
Really handsome rooster free to a good home. He's friendly and looks after my hens very well, but as I only have 2 hens I think he would prefer a larger flock to care for. Free to anyone giving him a nice, caring home. Photos available on request.