Our 16 chickens arrived in mid April 2010 and were 2 days old. They started laying their first eggs the end of July, beginning of August. For a while we got 2, then it progressed to 5, then 10 and so on. By the end of summer, they were producing 8 to 9 a day. This is an extremely cold winter...
Does anyone feed their chickens house scraps? We have our chickens in a house and run. Within a month all vegetation in the run was gone. Their house and run is next to the garden so anything I pull out I give to them. But what about house scraps? Thoughts?
Hello! I'm brand new to the forum from south west Georgia. I have 16 chickens, 1 dog, 1 husband and 1 son. Haha. We have almost 2 acres and a garden. The garden and the pool actually take up most of our time and the chickens are pretty well content. The chicken coop is close to the garden...
So I'm new to this forum but thought that I would start by posting up the chicken coop. My husband drew up the plans and then built it. I supervised. Haha. Took him 1 day to build it. 2nd day he roofed it. We had it sitting on one side of the property and then decided that we wanted it by...