I have been doing this for a year now and I just take and mix it in with their food and it seems to be working real good. I haven't had to buy oyster shells since I started!
I have one of those little electric choppers or food processor and after my egg shells have been washed I put them in the window to dry then I throw them in that little chopper and it grinds them up real fine and my girls egg shells are nice and thick!! You can get a little chopper for $9.00 at...
What are most of you charging for a dozen of eggs? This is my first time selling them they are charging $1.64 for lg. eggs at wal-mart so I thought I would charge $2.00 or is that to cheap?
After we lost our 3 older laying hens our newbies finally started to lay yesterday we got 5 eggs and 3 were layed in the dog house on our deck the other 2 were in the nesting boxes in the barn it's an igloo dog house and it has straw in there they lay in the far back so I had to crawl in there...
:hitWell a week ago we lost 5 hens and 3 were our oldest and best layers, they were 7 months old so we put a trap out and we caught a fisher didn't even know they had them around here until now,and it is a dead one now!!! I know they have them up in northern Wi. because the DNR brought them in...
What is the easiest way to get the feathers off a turkey, this will be my first time and I sure don't want to have trouble like we had with the geese!! Any advice I would appreciate Thanks.
I have three girls that were all laying and I went to North Carolina for two weeks and my husband was only getting one to two eggs a day, I thought that maybe one was laying outside so I looked all over our three and a half acre farm and found nothing, so today I am leaving them in chicky jail...
My younger chickens are all mixed we got them from McMurray hatchery they will be 22 weeks on Monday shouldn't they be close to laying by now. My RIR started at 19 weeks.
From Indy acres. I just went to tractor supply today and they have a huge display of lip moisturizer and it is called free range chicken poop it's an all-natural cosmetic moisturizer and also says(Contains No Poop) I had to have it and it is worth the $2.49. This is my first time raising...
Congrats!!! I know exactly how you feel I too was soooo excited with my first egg, Now I have 3 laying and 18 more to start and I can't wait I am also giving them the cayenne pepper because it is getting much colder here they say it works we will see!!!
I started mine on cayenne pepper on Saturday and haven't seen an increase in egg production yet but I am going to keep giving it to them for the rest of the week to see what happens!! I will let you all know in a few more days.
How much cayenne pepper do you put in their food? I have 3 hens that are laying and are in a seperate coop from the younger girls and my roo is also with them so how much should I give them and how often? In the other coop I have 18 and 2 roos how much should I give them they are just starting...