Thanks Centrarchil, with regards to age of seed I buy it weekly from a supplier so I'm sure it quite fresh & I store it in a large plastic drum with a sealing lid to make sure it stays dry & stops rodents entering or eating it.
Thanks Odelia & Eggcessive for your comments. The chooks have different ages, the first two are 3 years old & they went cluckly
last summer on a batch of eggs that were not fertile because I had no Rooster. I decided to buy 4 one day old chickens to put under the hens as it was the first time...
Don't know if anyone has had this problem but my chooks will only eat the black sunflower seeds in their food. I have purchased many different types of complete chook food but they still only eat the sunflower seeds and leave all the rest which goes to waste & is about 90% of the seed mix in the...