One of my chickens stopped laying about 6 weeks ago. She seemed to have a problem with her crop, as if something was stuck in there. She layed an egg without a shell and then nothing for 6 weeks until today. We found an egg that was under her perch ( not in the nest box) that was very dark red...
I have read a number of very long threads about giving the girls extra light in the winter.
In these threads a question that always popped up but was never really answered in detail is.....
Do I extend the mornings, allowing them to retire at night due to the natural fading of light?
or
Do I...
I tried to load my new coop onto BYC but seemed to have no end of problems.
Anyway, if anyone is interested I have a history of it being built here
http://3d4.de/projekthuhn/
The idea for the coop I got from the designs listed here. Plans? No plans, just my wife and I working with a vision...