My 11 week old girls don't seem to want anything I offer them except grapes...which they love!!! Will this change as they get older? I read here that chickens will eat anthing, but mine seem to be the exception. I've tried the following:
Apples
Bananas
Blue berries
Cantalope
Watermellon
Corn...
When we are around the house, I let them free range in our small yard. When we are gone away the girls stay in the run. Sometimes when we want to go, they don't want to cooperate. They are having too much fun to go in. Sometimes I wonder which of my neighbors are watching and laughing as I chase...
This is all new to me, but I've lesrned that you guys have the answers. I have five (all different breeds) 7 week olds. I seem to be finding 3 or 4 feathers (big ones) loose in the run/coop/yard each day. Is this normal/okay? Most of them seem to be white (coming from my white leghorn, i guess...
Hello from VA!!!
I am a new chicken daddy, but have been a reader of BYC for about 1 year. A friend of mine that I work with got his first chickens last spring and has been telling me about their antics since. After listening to his stories and seeing the coop/run that he built, I just knew I...