Im in southwest PA foot hills of the Laurels. I have a question if someone can answer? Im thanking of getting some jungle fowl build a open but covered roost and put them in the wooded area of my property to run wild. Still maybe a problem with egg layers even though they would be ¼ mile away...
Between my meat and layers i have from 10 to 30 chickens at different times of years. I heard and agree that fish meal would be a great feed mix and have found suppliers of large amounts of 3 tons.... Ok i would be willing to buy 100 or 200 pounds at a time but not 3 tons. Really want to produce...
I have read that certian foods help produce diffrent shades of egg color, and wondered if this was true? If so what are the plants that help with this.
Hello, I have two types of chickens White Leghorns, and Black Australorp. Both breads where bought weeks from each other but Leghorns been laying for months. The Australorps 1st egg was today but was not in the nesting boxes and was outside under the coop very hard to get to! The Australorp...
I started to let my chickens free range as my garden is about done they really liked my wifes greens. Anyway when it rains they just stand there and get wet. I tried to get them back in the coope with no luck. For some reason they scatter for me when it rains but they dont when it is a clear...
Hello new to posting but have read a lot useful posts. My problem is I have had 4 hens die and their hind ends disembowel. This seem to happen very fast so I watched very close and discovered my roosters were the problem. Once there was a bad spot all the others just attacked until well she was...