My girls have been laying since Sept 1. I have 12 chickens...had 12 with one Wellsummer and a *#**# mountain lion invaded and took her, Ginger, one of my pets. A friend gave me an 18 week old white Wyandot (I have a golden and a silver). She is larger than the other two and quite well feathered...
Changed feed to one with more protein,, giving real scratch instead of left over cow grains, and fresh greens, still no eggs but girls are putting on weight and the Cookoo Maran looks more henlike every day. All of them are developing combs and several Rhodies are also get red faced and looking...
I just don't know what I am doing. I want to ask more questions, get more help, but I've been on tis ting for three hours now and haven't figured out how to do it except start over. I started reading about feeding chickens and am scared to tears for my girls. They were 10 to 12 weeks old, I...
I'm an 80 yr old country gal who used to have chickens then moved to where we couldn't have them for 18 years. When we retired to the home ranch I started begging for chicken again. Finally bought a coop, built a yard (can't free range because of the many predators)and got my chickens. Always...