I recently had to go before my city council and have a section of their "new revised animal ordinance" which was against and limiting not only the quantity and greatly increasing the square footage of land requirements on land to have chickens. first we have only hens for egg production and...
i have this one light brahma hen that every time she feeds, she lets out giant squawks that look like she is choking. this goes on until she finishes. i am sure she is not showing she's the queen of the hill or anything like that. she has plenty of water around if she wants a drink. as a...
for the past couple of months i have fed my 8 hens layenna crumbles mixed with standard hen scratch. the wife also picks some grass for them each day as her treat to them. yep they are spoiled. i was wondering if i could add some alfalfa pellets as well without hurting them. the weather is...
we have 8 hens 5 rhode island reds, 3 light brahams, and 1 amercuana. they are all about 7 months old. the R I R's started laying about a month ago, the Brahams started about 2 weeks ago. the Amercuana has still not laid. she goes through all the motions even sets on the nest and makes loud...