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I have some young pheasants. When I brought them home as chicks, I had them living in our barn in an old oblong horse tank (drained, of course). Today I decided that since I was nice and they were about to outgrow the tank, I'd move them to their larger pen which is a large dog kennel attached...

Wow, thanks for all the answers! I guess I'll play with it and see what happens to the eggs. They are fed a layer feed, and they do seem to eat it. However, they are free range chickens so they eat a wide range of other things as well as veggie scraps we throw them. They've also been known to...

I guess you kind of answered my second question with the first answer. My thought process was that the chicken's body would use the calcium from the oyster shells, both to strengthen their own bones and to make hard shells. So the first round of eggs they produced would have lots of calcium...

I'm sure this has been asked before, so I apologize. I have two Brahma hens who have been laying for a couple of months now. They have a pan of oyster shell in their run, but it's low and I need to refill it yet have misplaced the bag of oyster shell. I have wanted to just feed them their own...

I have two Brahma hens that are about 6 months old. The man who gave them to me has been telling me for over a month they should be laying and they weren't - but at least one of them started a few days ago. She's not very regular about it so I've been checking the coop (where they've been so...

I will try to make this as simple and easy to understand as possible :). I have five Brahma chickens, about 4-5 months old. They were started on chick starter. Currently, they are fed layer pellets/crumbles in their feeder, a handful of scratch grains, they have oyster shell in the corner, and...