I feed a 16% protein pellet feed from my local farm store. My chickens also get lots of table straps and occasionally dried mealworms, fermented feed, sprouts, and other scratch grains. They are very spoiled. Yes, she has been laying for about a month.
I do still have the body but it has been...
No, she only had a very very small amount of frostbite. The door on my coop is on the right side of the coop. When you walk in there are nesting boxes right in front of you on the opposite wall. Then to the left of the nests are the roosting bars going across the corner of the coop diagonal to...
When I walked into the coop yesterday morning my beloved Silver Grey Dorking hen was dead. She was only 9 months old and showed absolutely no symptoms of being ill. I live in Northern Vermont and we have basically every chicken predator there is. I have 27 chickens and they have access to an...