Naked Necks - started laying at 4 months, laid all winter(a dozen a day), now molting and we are now back up to 12 one day and 8 or 9 the next. The are now a year old. Proud mama of 19 hens. Ugly, but good.
We are visited by coyotes almost every evening. We have had 19 hens for a year and no problems. The run and house have chicken wire and there is a fence around the area. Our neighbor spotted a bobcat in their yard and it ran into the woods behind our house. Now that worries me a bit. The...
my 20 nn were supposed to lay an egg 2 to 3 times a week and they are dual purpose (larger) hens.
well, they started laying at 4 months and now at 6 months i am being gifted over a dozen a day.
it is below freezing at night, but no slow up.
need recipes that use up lots of eggs please.
yes, have 5 mo old nn and they have been laying approx. 4 eggs a day for the past 2 weeks. we have 20 hens. we have gotten 2 double yolk eggs. It has been below freezing here for the past couple of nights and we had snow this am. I know not all are laying yet, but don't know which ones. The...
congratulations.
we were just gifted by our first egg last week and have been getting on every other day. don't know which of our 20 4 1/2 mo. old hens is mommy. eggs are light brown and still small. we do know it is a nn.
We are getting wooly caterpillers - we see them only when the winter is cold and wet. Our nights are in the low 40's and in some places in our state the nights are below freezing.
naked neck turkens are med to large egg layers and lay about 180 eggs a year, i think. i have 20 hens that are just 16 weeks old. they are very social and all want to be petted. also have 5 roos. am rehoming 2 of them this week, i hope.
i have a small flock of 25. the instuctions on the Wazine say for every 1,000 birds add 10 oz to 20 gal. of water. i am short on higher math skills. can someone help me out? thank much