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Quote: I wish I had your eggs. I am going to have to add a third coup and about 15 more hens to keep up with the demand I have for eggs! Sold 8 dozen last week--know I am selling 3 or 4 dozen tomorrow and some more on Saturday. Probably will be 8 again when finished for the week. My brown...

All my eggs are the same price no matter what color they are.

I have the exact opposite problem. Where I live there are 4 others within a mile of me that sell eggs. The highest prices ones are $2.00 and go down from there. I sell mine for $1.00 no matter what eggs they are--white, brown, green all $1.00. Only advertising I have done is word of mouth...

My older ones do this occasionally. I just let them stay outside. They roost in the trees and I AINT going to climb a tree just to get them in the coop.

I would not let the chicks in there until they are at LEAST half the size of the other hens. As far as the mama hen goes, whenever you think the chicks are ok on their own, you can put her back with the rest. That is what I do anyway and it has always worked for me.

25 hens--23 eggs

Right before I sold 6 Roos last week, I shut them up in a horse stall for a day just to make it easier to catch them. I had not put chicken wire over the holes at the top of the stall and they all flew out to roost on top of the coop. The holes were 15 feet high.

Never heard of the brand, but you need to feed more than scratch and oyster shell if you are expecting decent eggs.

I thought she would but was just wondering.

I have an 8 month old that had been laying great until she got hurt. Somehow she lost a toe (have no idea how) and when she got hurt, she quit laying. Has been a month now, she walks with a limp, get around fine but has not started laying again. Does anyone think she will lay again.

21 hens 19 eggs yesterday

There the ones WE eat. When we cook eggs, we cook 2 dozen at the time for the 5 of us.

I have been feeding a combination of Purina/Dumor because that is the only reasonably priced feed I could find in my area. All the locally owned feed stores around here have just about closed down and the only one left is TOO expensive on everything they sell. I just found out this week of a...

I have mine in the run so the sun shines on it in the winter and unfreezes it if it happens to freeze. My run is also sheltered so that helps keep out the rain and snow.

I have 22 lb feeders. I fill them up on Sat morning and add to them throughout the week. I try to have them close to empty by Saturday morning so I can swap them for clean ones. I refresh their water the same way.

Quote: Mine live oranges. I cut them in half and lay then in a pan and by the next day everything but the peel is gone. They also love apples, strawberries.

Quote: I have this same type of feeder and was having the same problems, then I put a round galvanized pan under each feeder and it catches most of the feed. Every once in a while I have to clean the pan out, but I have seen the hens eating from the pan and now some won't touch the feeder and...

I don't raise worms but about once a week I buy a couple containers of night crawlers from Wal-Mart and they eat them like crazy. 20 in each container and they are gone in less than a minute. I do have 25 eating them though.

Quote: Nope. Mine still have free choice laying mash plus the veggies. I have 15 leghorns and avg 13-14 eggs a day from them. Plus my home raised hybrids--have 7 avg 6 eggs a day from them.

I have been doing this ever since I started getting chickens. They eat lettuce, cabbage, collards and I even get the out of date bagged spinach (they LOVE that). I usually go to the local Piggly Wiggly two or three times a week. Matter of fact going in just a few minutes.