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  1. missnu01

    What to feed chickens to lay more eggs.

    Are you sure they aren't laying their eggs somewhere strange? And also that you got them 3 months ago? Also you may have fallen prey to the lie about a hens age trick... Also I'm going to assume your chickens get a fair amount of sun or light. I only ask because our chicken coop stays dark most...
  2. missnu01

    What to feed chickens to lay more eggs.

    I compost all our waste in a big open pile and the only thing hat actually gets composted is the old bedding when I clean out the coop. The chickens eat everything else long before I can spoil, peels, wilty lettuce, coffee grounds banana peels...anything I put in it they follow me and eat it...
  3. missnu01

    What to feed chickens to lay more eggs.

    I've recently seen LF eggs smaller than my bantam lays... I've got some stout hens I'll tell you that. The largest brown egg is my EE. The white egg is a store jumbo. The next 2 are from my salmon faverolles why they don't lay the same eggs I'm not sure. But one lays squat fat dark eggs...
  4. missnu01

    What to feed chickens to lay more eggs.

    Because while the higher protein does create more eggs, and larger eggs it also wears your hens out faster. I noticed when I got turkeys that when the hens ate the turkey food they laid huge eggs, so I switched everyone to the game bird feed and all my buff orpington hens turned inside out. They...
  5. missnu01

    What to feed chickens to lay more eggs.

    I think that chickens become overweight from people feeding them corn as a main staple, and too much bread. A little of both here an there is no big deal, but all the time and too much at a time is no good. The hen we got was also older, and weight tends to creep up with age as well. She was...
  6. missnu01

    What to feed chickens to lay more eggs.

    An overweight chicken will stop laying. That is fact. We got a really big hen off of craigslist that never laid eggs...we were told she was laying, but she never did. After a month and a half with no eggs from her we processed her and she was mostly fat. Just like people, if you reach a certain...
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