I took an egg, and made a small hole and drained eggwhite and yolk then filled with hand soap and sealed hole with dental wax and put in nest box. Worked great for us they won't like taste of soap
I am pregnant and have had numerous people questioning me on whether or not i should be cleaning my chicken coop? Not so much cause the weight of the shovel but the "feces". Just wondering.
My doctor didn't seem that worried about it but curious as to what everyone thinks.
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Robin's Nest of Eggs
Started with 4 Cornish Rocks and 2 Assorted Reds which were Rhode Island Reds
Then Came 2 more Rhode Island Reds
Then came 3 Buff Orpingtons
Then the Cornish Rocks were put in the freezer.
Then came 3 more Buff Orpingtons...
My girls seem to be slacking. I have the light in the coop on so they are getting 14 hours of light a day. They have plenty of food and water available at all times. I'm only geting 1 egg a day from 7 hens or 2 if i'm lucky. Don't understand why they aren't laying more. There has been no...
My girls are wasting alot of food lately. Any ideas of how to stop the waste of food. I tried putting it outside so they could pick at it and they still wasted quite a bit . don't know what to do any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Robin
So today as I was removing my chickens to the outside run (as they won't go outside if they see snow:yiipchick) so i could clean out the coop, one of my rhode island reds look like she had a runny nose.....do chickens get runny noses??? What could this mean??? Could this have anything to do...
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I wonder if it could be something other than protein deficiency. Lack of light this time of year? A molt? I just give my birds BOSS, a little yogurt, mealworms... I did give them a little tuna one day, which they loved. Don't think I would feed them fish without cooking it...
they did get turkey the other week after thanksgiving, and i was hoping to see alittle boost in eggs but didn't happen....i'll have to try some cat food, have plenty of that.
i need protein ideas for my girls (aka my chickens). I was using country max feed but egg production really dropped and I think it was cause they weren't getting enough protein. they were on a food from a local mill before and was getting lots of eggs. i am switching them slowly over to the...
So back in the summer my egg production dropped. I took it as normal since i had two broodies out of seven. I have 7 chickens all together, 5 bo's and 2 RIR's. But at the same time, I started to buy the country max layer crumbles/mash. Right around the same time as switching them to the...