I have eight hens, and for most of the last week I've been getting 6 or 7 eggs per day. On Mother's Day, not a single egg. Did they know it was Mother's Day, or perhaps it being Sunday, decided it was a day of rest?
Most of the materials for my chicken tractor were laying around taking up space anyway, so when I decided to build one, I scavenged as much material as possible for free. For the frame, I picked up some store shelving (1" square tubular steel) from a store that was going out of business, and...
I have three Buff Orpingtons, two Rhode Island Reds, and what I think is an Appenzeller Spitzhauben. How will I know which hens are producing? I'm not sitting there watching them lay eggs.
My wife picked up our first hens yesterday, and stopped by the feed store where they sold her scratch (a mixture of corn and something else) Is this what they eat all the time? I put it in their feeder, but I remember as a kid, my grandmother just scattered it on the ground. I thought that...