I have 10 layers and get about 4-5 eggs/day. I noticed an improvement when I added a light on a timer for 6 extra hours of light. Before that I was only getting 2.
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HAHAHAHA! He still kicks himself, too! LOL!
Thank you everyone for your warm welcome! I'm sad - no more exits. Poor little guys just didn't make it out. I know now that I shouldn't have opened it to let the other chicks out... dried out the membranes. ( I am so sad!!! Oh, well - next...
We were lucky enough to have our first egg finally come on the second day of our first hatch! Neat!
I'm a single (divorced) mom of three little boys - a four year old and twin two year olds. I started raising backyard chickens to give the boys a pet, and a useful one at that. Nine chickens and...
I have my very first hatch of 20 cuckoo maran eggs happening tomorrow... and they're already working on their big exit from their eggs. SO excited! It's amazing watching something being born.