Hello all,
I have not been on in a while, but I am concerned about my hens. I have had them for 8 months and they have not laid any eggs. I bought 7 chicks in April of this year, two of them ended up being roosters. I have recently added a daylight bulb to their coop to try and encourage them...
Hello all, my name is Austin and I live in SW Washington. I decide last spring that it was time I knew what was going into the eggs I consume, so my family and I purchased 7 day old chicks. We bought 4 Americaunas, a Rhode island red, black australorp and one other. Now that they are 6 months we...
I have been using shavings up until a couple of days ago.my hens are 6 months and I just started using straw for bedding, but they keep kicking it out of nesting boxes. I am new to raising chickens and I was just wondering if one type of bedding is better than the other. I live in western WA...