Our approximately 16 month old Ameraucana, Maple, has laid 3 soft shelled eggs out of 140, her first laying year. 2 in the last week, mid September, starting a molt? I feed Bar Ale layer pellets with oyster shell. Snacks are meal worms a.m., corn mid a.m., greens at 2 p.m. (Cabbage, lettuce...
Hi, about 2 years ago, our neighbors brought 4 chicks home, but did not train them to roost. So they slept in the maples and redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains. Sadly, the sole survivor, jumped ship and came to us as winter set in. We never had chickens, but I feed wild birds, so the owners...