We've had them for 4 years years and while they are still gorgeous chickens we've added new babies and don't have room for all. I've heard laying chickens don't have much meat for eating and I'm not interested in eating my pets yet by August I'll have a full coop with new Coco Marins. What do...
We will add in more oyster shell to their feed. They are free range and we've checked all over the yard for places they may be laying but have not found any eggs in the yard.
We feed them pellet layer feed, oysters shells on occasion, and before we fed them crumble pellet feed. We switched just to see if it would make a difference.
We raise backyard chickens in Iowa and have 4 Barred Rocks that are 4-5 years old and 3 Cinnamon Queens that are 2 years old. They molted starting in September and are done now but we are very low on egg production still. We get maybe one egg every other day from one of the Cinnamon Queens. We...