i havent had any trouble getting rid of any eggs , we sell ours for 2.50 doz and usually have to scramble around and cut ourself short to fill the orders. We get around 16-18 eggs a day and that will increase alot very soon i have about 25 legs and 15 rhodes and some other chicks about 4 weeks...
i have 8 adult roos now, 1 know that 2 are whiteleg horns, 2 of them are unknown they are twins, the other 2 i have learned are supposed to be fighting cocks. I dont have any trouble with any of them once they found there pecking order. The big one looks like the kellogs rooster he is very...
You may have turned me onto something ive been getting the white spots on the yolk now, since i have turned my hens out i noticed that 1 of my whiteleg horns has been fighting with the other roos. He/she shows no signs of it being a roo but i do notice that he/she will walk around and attack...
I have 26 laying hens in 1 of my houses now, they looked like they really wanted out on sat so i open the run up and my 6 roos was waiting patently outside NOT my ? will i have a lot of blood spots in my eggs now that they were introduced with the roos. i hope not my layers seem happier now...
Ive recently aquired 2 bantam hens and2 bantam roos, ive havent seen the hens lay an egg yet i dont know how old they are the guy said that they was 1.5 years old when i bought them what would make them not lay i have them in a chicken tractor that i built for the 4 with a small nest inside of...
My wife calls me at work this eve, crying and screaming, she tells me that we have several dead cornish rock chicks that have their intestines hanging out of their vent. The white leghorn chicks was eating them and pulling the insides out. Both sets of chicks are about 6weeks old the LHs were...
ive found some in the winchester va area at a local feed store it is called GEOBOND it is organic it has some kind of clay and DE in it. It tells you about the feeding ration on the bag, it doesnt say it is food grade just organic with feeding instructions, i think it says no more than 2% of...
10 RIRs, 12 white legs, 2 brown legs, and 21 brown and white leg chicks 6 weeks old, 19 RIR peeps 4 weeks old ,10 dont know what they are 12 weeks old, 14 cornish rocks and 5 roos outside. mostly for eggs, the rocks will be for the barbie this summer and the roos are neat to watch and 4 black...
Hi new to the forum, 2 months ago i had no birds now I have about 93 birds of all different ages been outside looking in for awhile and then joined the site alot of knowledge on this site, just helped me get rid of a case of cocci in my leghorn chicks. Ive been reading about DE and wondering if...