I have 5 reds that are almost 1 year old and they are all very healthy. My question is about letting them out in the yard. I live in a little neighborhood on a corner lot and my yard is enclosed with a 6 ft privacy fence. Right now they have a decent size run of 10x20 but I would like to let...
I have 5 reds that are roughly 20 weeks old and about 3 weeks ago I started getting 2-3 eggs a day. Now today I got 5 but I noticed 1 had a large amount of bloom on it and one of my girls was acting different, kinda standing in one spot and not as "spunky" as the rest of them. I refilled their...
For the past few weeks I've been feeding my girls a all natural grower made by Hubbard Feeds. Within the past 3 days they have started laying their very first eggs. I would like to continue feeding them with Hubbard's Layer Feed but the closest supplier is 45 minutes away. So the question is,I'm...
I've been doing some research on chicken feeds and I've narrowed my options down to 3 brands of feed. My question is, with wanting to keep my whole chicken/egg thing closest to organic as possible what "natural" feeds do you folks recommend and why? My top 3 brands to choose from are...
As the title says my mini flock of five red sex links are roughly 6 weeks old and they are on their last bag of chick starter. The problem Im having is Im not sure what to give them next.Growing up my grandfather would always feed cracked corn to the few we had.Ive seen all different kinds of...
Ok,i have 5 red star pullets and im in the process of building my first coop,they have about 2-3 more weeks before they go outside.My question is since i have 5 is it necessary to install 5 nesting boxes?Any info or advise would be greatly appreciated.
hey yall, thanks for having me. im new to raising chickens on my own, we raised them when i was younger though. i just bought 6 red sex links from TSC and man they are cute and funny my kids love em.well hope no one gets annoyed by me asking questions in the future as my little ones grow cause i...