With the ridiculous price on mealworms, I am considering getting live ones and breeding them to have a constant supply. My question is my pullets have a 4 ft x 12 ft run where I have grass clippings, leaves, and hay as bedding (deep litter) for warm this winter. I was raking around today...
For two days straight I have found a cold egg first thing in the morning around 8ish, when I let the ladies out of the coop. I do one last egg check and lock up at around 5pm and sunsets have been about 5:30ish. I know one girl lays first thing in the morning at 8:39 and she is usually the...
So my Barred rocks just started laying last week. Now that they're more of a steady schedule, Khaleesi, the first pullet to lay in the morning has developed a bad habit of taking the dummy eggs out of the egg boxes and making her own nest on the coop floor/bedding. Then the other girls see where...
They were shipped to me July 15 so they're almost 24 weeks! But! Its Dec 27 and we're in Michigan. We've lost a ton of daylight and its cloudy a lot. We try to let them free range in the backyard still but we had a ton of snow on the ground last few weeks so they've mostly stayed in the run. I'm...