This past year I began with 24 hens, had a wild animal some how break into their pen and killed 10! Then they were in a molt for awhile with no production for it seemed like forever! Then tragedy hit again and another wild animal got one of my hens just two weeks ago. I have been watching over...
Help my hens are becoming bald by their tail feathers...not sue what is causing it...however, I noticed two of my larger black astralorps hens still have all theirs and seem to peck at the others....are they causing the others to lose their feathers?
Been getting a lot of eggs from my girls lately. Any suggestions as to what I can do with extra eggs that we don't use? We have been giving some away to friends but still not enough to matter. I have 25 hens
and don't want to part with any of them. If I chose to sell eggs how much should I...
I have 25 hens, 10 red pullets, and 15 black astralorps...I'm getting about 15-17 eggs a day. I find it funny I'm not getting 25 a day yet they are all 5 months old now. What could the problem be?
We just purchased our home 6+ months ago and we have 5 outbuildings. 1 is a barn that previous owners had chickens and goats in. We have 15 acres and 3 of it has our barns on it. The rest is wooded. We built a outside pen for our hens ( yes we got some chicks in March and raised them) so we...
One of my girls was busy this week...the first egg was last week then Saturday through Monday one egg per day!! Happy at least one is producing right now and cannot wait for the other 24 to produce as well.
I found my first egg today too!! Mine are almost 17 weeks old. I have been feeding them grower/finisher feed...and just bought 3 bags of it last week and have 2 bags left! I wasn't planning on them laying till they were 22 weeks...so what do I do now?
I got my first egg today!! Thank you everyone who mentioned it could be any day, you were right on the money. I'm uploading pics of my flock and the egg.[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]
HELLO! I'm all new to the chicken thing...my husband is more familiar with them than me, we moved here 6 months ago and have tons of room here in the country. We bought 41 chickens back in March, wow was that overwhelming!! We lost a few chicks right away, and a few more later on...those ones...
Hello I'm new to BYC too! I have 25 hens. 10 reds, and 15 Black Astralorps. They are 16 weeks right now. I do wonder about when do they start laying...we just started raising chickens this year and moved to the country in Indiana.