I read if they free range they don't need grit. I also heard that if they eat layer food they don't need oyster shells. That was from a man who wanted to sell me some eggs to hatch, but I don't have an incubator. The two breeder Silky Seramas will be my highway to hatching eggs when it's warmed...
I discovered this past weekend that all my birds adore Pepperjack Cheese! However, I just now read a post on this forum about calcium being bad for young non-laying pullets and even roosters! There is some question regarding the possibility of too much calcium even being bad for a laying age hen...
The only egg shells so far I have fed to Brandy are the ones from today, but to be honest, I worried that might make her more determined to break her own to eat!?!? I have fed all the birds scrambled eggs once, but they didn't really seem to love them. The little rooster wouldn't touch them...
Ever since I introduced the Silky Serama Bantams breeder pair and the little allegedly Americauna young pullet as company to my mixed hen Brandy, her regular 6 eggs a week in her laying box has stopped. At first she acted jealous and laid a couple of eggs in the bantam's tiny laying box which...