I'm having a problem with my hens taking all of the bedding out of their nests. I've tried hay, wheat straw, cedar shavings, and cedar bedding pellets. They have emptied everything from their nests which causes the eggs to break when they are laid. I put silicone mats in to help cushion the...
After losing all of our other hens we moved our 3 remaining hens to a new coop. About a month later I found a lash egg in one of the nesting boxes.
The hens look healthy and have not laid any more lash eggs. On of the hens actually laid a tiny egg. We don't know if it had a good yolk in it...
Hello. My family and I live in northeastern Oklahoma. We've lived in our current location since 1979. When our kids were young we had chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, pigs, dogs, cats, and a squirrel. As the kids grew and with us both working we kind of got away from the livestock. We are now...