I have 10 chickens some were hatched last February. Some of them want to lay their eggs under their roosts instead of in the nest box. I get 6 to 7 eggs a day.
I think we have solved the problem. We had a concrete pad poured a few feet from the chicken yard during wet and cold weather. The chickens died within days. Discovered that zink oxide in in cement. I believe the runoff caused the problem.
1. We purchased 6 chickens then 6mo we get 6 more then a few months later we got 12. 2.Right now we only have 1 brown as we lost all be those. The 24 had gotten down to 19. I did butcher one ro so had 18 laying chickens. In fact just before our loss we got 13 eggs. In the next few days all...