Is there any reason one shouldn't feed dry cat food to chickens ? Not as the regular diet, but a handful thrown around for the occasional treat.. You can pick up some pretty inexpensive large bags of cat food at places like Menards. I would never feed that cheap stuff to my cats, but as the...
I have 6 hens and NO rooster and my eggs are lovely...sometimes just a tiny speck of blood...from straining I think. However, as it is winter and my girls are not laying well, so I sometimes get eggs from a neighbor to sell to my co workers. The neighbor DOES have e rooster. Today for the second...
Just wanted to say that my hen who had a mysterious ailment...wry neck perhaps...following an apparent hawk attack...nickel sized hole in her back...has totally recovered !!! She's back to laying, tho it is now almost winter here, and she is three years old...so, I'm not expecting lots of...
My three free ranging hens were attacked last week...one completely gone...the littlest of course...one untouched...the third and largest of them had a nickel size hole in her back like she'd been stabbed with a BIG beak or perhaps talons. I cleaned the wound...there were actually feathers...