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I'm sorry you feel bad for asking. I was this close to asking the same question and in the same way, so don't apologize! You saved me the trouble :) What do you do to "quiet them down"? My neighbor suggested squirting water from a water bottle. If I toss some food in, that will quiet them...

My chickens are cooped up...no free range. What do I need to provide for their digestion they would normally get through digesting grit from the ground? I heard I need to purchase some stuff for them to eat, like gravel. What is it? Would sand work? I feed them back their shells. Is that...

This has probably been answered but I don't know where to find it. Can you help? My 5 hens (2 years old) each have their own nesting boxes and plenty of food and water down below on the floor. The egg production has gone drastically down to one egg every day or so since this fall. I am...

Thank you for the help... I just added cheyenne pepper to the feed, I will use exclusively the layer pellets and not the scratch for a while and hooked up a light. If I have it on day and night to compensate for the lack of natural daylight hours, will that confuse the chickens? Do they need...

I realize that hens will stop laying during molting, and they did molt for about a month (Aug-Sept). But it's the end of Oct and this is getting ridiculous. I had 4 hens (golden stars) who all stopped laying in the end of summer (mid Aug). They were free ranging, but I had to put them in a...