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I don't think that was the response 1cutechick was looking for. I'm curious too. And I will not eat my roo

I have 10 laying hens, 1 pullet near POL and 5 chicks that are now 12 weeks old. I got them at 8 weeks old. After a quarantine period I put them out in a small pen where the big girls could see them, I'm assuming like you have. After a couple days I supervised short visits with the big girls...

Corn...who knew. Thanks. Of course, it's one of their favorites and I just gave them 3 ears before reading this...

Thanks for the advice. I went out and changed all the feeders to Flock Raiser. Freshened up the oyster shells and moved them closer to the feeders. I'll cut out all flax. For 16 birds, they only get a small scoop- maybe 2 cups worth of scratch and a fistful of sunflower seeds in the morning. It...

Uh Oh! I started feeding them ground flax seed not too long ago...but before the problems began. The vet did not do any blood work. She is not actually an avian vet. She works with livestock here in our small farming community. Her chicken experience is from her own flock. She has also worked on...

I have added younger birds once before to my flock of 16. At that time I changed everyone to flock raiser. I have not seen "grower" in any of the feed stores here. They only have chick starter, layer and flock raiser. Once the young ones started laying I changed to Layer. I have always added...

Point well taken. I was feeding layer to my layers until I got 9 week old chicks. Then I switched everyone to Flock raiser. I had oyster shell in a separate bowl but started getting soft shelled eggs and had a chicken with a serious prolapse.That was when my vet came over and told me they had a...

My vet, who has 300 chickens herself, both for meat and a flock of layers, says she just feeds everyone the same thing...layer. She has birds of all ages together and keeps her layers for years until they die natural deaths. She doesn't see health problems in her birds using layer feed. Her...