I said scratch, I meant feed. We give them high protein layer feeds mixed with dried powdered egg shells and a bit of beetroot powder as a vitamin boost. Zero scratch.
We have barred rock, rhode island reds, and easter eggers.
Got them as chicks April 2016.
All normal until this summer, they stopped laying, then maybe a month later they started molting. They finished molting a month ago. In total it's been around 4 or 5 months of literally zero blue eggs...
Back in "the day" without taking special precautions (like collecting "night manure" and removing it to place on other land, tilling the soil every year, adding lime or all 3) most free range farmers agreed that 50 was about the limit per acre. If you did the above steps you could push it to...
It seems what ever it was is over. Lost 8 of 22. I have some predizone left over I could have used but it would have been difficult to doze correctly. At any rate, put this in the experience pool to pulk from next time. :(
Just lost what is hopefully the last one. Total of 8 out of 22 dead. It eventually did start happening to both breeds that were shipped so it may have just been chance that the first few were all the same breed. Had a couple that I managed to actually turn around and bring out of the normal...
That eases my worries a bit. Just frustrating for a number of reasons. Did as much research as someone can do before learning from experience. First batchI ever bought had 1 die from "Failure to Thrive". While all the other chicks were gaining 4 to 7 grams of weight a day, this one would only...
They were day old when shipped so 48 to 72 hours depending exactly on when they were born, but whats making me thing genetic is its only the white colored ones of the easter eggers that are doing this. I went through the proper process when unpacking of butt checkong and beak dipping and...
I'm pretty sure there's nothing to be done, but wanted to put this out there and see what people knew.
Just bought 16 easter eggers, and 6 golden cross. Within 12 hours of arriving (48 hours from time of shipping) 3 of the White Easter Eggers had loss motor control, would only walk backwards...