Hey i have a quick question... Rn i am in an AP environmental science class and we were talking about chickens. My teacher made the comment that no animal is designed to be able to eat and digest corn. So with that in mind, would scratch feed even the best quality really be the best thing to...
Well, wouldn't you have to rely on the egg rolling into the box, and wouldn't that box have to have a pretty long length so the chickens would not just roll it back out because i know for a fact that my chickens dig out almost every crack and crevasse there is?
An older gentleman once told me that he found one of his hens that were busting eggs was also broody. Once he set her, she stopped completely and the amount of eggs he gathered increased after she hatched and started laying again. Besides the point, he made the comment is that the trick is to...
Well, hens that break their eggs are typically deficient in some kind of nutrients; however, I do believe it becomes habit after the first couple are broken. It would be very beneficial if we could come up with a solution that would work.