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The temp does make a big difference. I had mine in the house where it's about 70 - 72. Due to a few escapees and my daughters freaking out about it, I moved them down to the heated basement, where it's about 60. Production slowed down quite a bit!

I don't think you should be wetting down your egg carton. I think, from what I've read here, that that would be too wet and that you'll encourage other critters (like mites) to take up residence, which you do not want to happen. As long as you are giving them produce (I use organic carrots) they...

You don't have to separate them. I do. I harvest worms from my oldest drawer of beetles. I put the pupae in their own drawers then add the newly hatched beetles to my drawer of youngest beetles. I've done different ways and this way seems to be easiest for me at this time. You can harvest...

Found a bunch more with pasty butt, maybe 6 out of 95. Not too too bad but I'm hoping the egg and yogurt works miracles on my little babies!

Have lost about 5 out of 100, assuming to pasty butt. Been cleaning way too many butts! Am going to try the eggs and yogurt. Already give ACV in the water. Tried the olive oil on a q-tip. I have been seeing a weak one and pick it up and they have a huge rock of poop on their butt. Some chicks...

I've had my worms for about 5 months now and it seems to be going really well. They are in organic wheat bran and given organic baby or cut up carrots which I put on a piece of newspaper or in a toilet paper tube. I wear a mask when I tend them after reading that tending them caused some people...

Yes. We have raised Freedom Rangers, been very happy with them. The roos are about a pound bigger than the hens and are just starting a pathetic type of "crowing" at 11 weeks when we process.

That's frustrating when they don't eat their food! Do you leave it on the floor so they have a chance to eat it? If they don't get anything else, will they eat it or not?

Countryside Organics soy free

We have ours on a timer - goes on at 5:30 - 7:15 AM and then 4:30 - 8 PM to give 14.5 hours of light. Read that they need 14 to lay so figured we've give them a little more to try to keep production up.

I wash mine (way too much poop and whatnot on them for me to consider not doing so!) and then put them in the fridge. They might sit on the counter for a day while I'm filling up the carton. When I want some to hardboil I put them on the counter for a few days first so they'll be easier to peel.

Oh, good to know. I'll never be able to figure out who's doing it since I have 75 hens! None of my customers have said anything, but both my daughter and I got one.

$4 a dozen for free range mostly organic eggs (feed is organic soy free, but some treats are of inferior quality). So I think $2 is really low!

I collect my eggs multiple times a day so there is no way this way an old egg, but two recently have been incredibly bloody inside when cracked open. YUCK! Any ideas on what might be causing this??? Thanks!

Mine won't eat way too many things. Strawberries, raspberries, cabbage, carrots, apples, cukes, scallops, broccoli, zuchinni, beets, peppers, celery. But, they love - blueberries, romaine and iceburg lettuce, yogurt, pumpkin seeds, bread, tomatoes (especially cherries), grapes, rice, pasta...

I use the deep litter method in my coop with a wood floor.

That's what I was going to suggest! Take the feeder out for a day or two and make them clean up their mess. I feed mine treats during the day (we get a LOT!) and then X amount of grain at night. It's expensive - organic, no soy, not in pellet form which I love - and I can't afford to spend a...

You can't legally give your own chickens your own table scraps? Now I've heard everything!