Very exciting, found our first egg today. They have been doing the egg laying song for a couple of weeks now.
We suspect that it was one of our 20 week old Australorps we call Esme.
Question...We medicated the chooks with an oral dose of Ivermectin to treat lice. We treated them twice a week...
Hi, I am new to keeping chickens.
I have a mixed flock of 6, mainly Australorps and RIRs. I got them at 2 weeks old and they are now 18 weeks.
I raised them largly on pullet pellet recently switching to layer pellet.
More recently I bought a 20kg bag of scratch mix which seems to be mainly mixed...
Hi All,
I have been returning to this site as a reference for some time now, so figered would be a good time to join.
I am new to keeping chickens. I have a small mixed flock of 6 RIR's and Australorps. I got them at 2 weeks old and they are now about 18 week.
I have a heap of questions and look...