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Thank you. My in laws have been saving egg cartons for me. I have a good laugh at "vegetarian fed" labels. The only meat I'm hesitant to feeding is pet food grade chicken...figuring human food is less likely to be made from sick chickens. Maybe. I've been using a mobile pasture set up. I expect...

I'm definitely no expert, but it seems like higher protein foods generally contain more fat than starchy foods. After meeting minimum fat requirements I wonder how much is useful, and at what point it could become harmful. I would imagine chickens get high cholesterol too 🤣 Having a place (or...

My gals are handling the cooler temps much better than hot summers as well. I've been doing a lot of research on winter care. In my neck of the woods, low temps rarely get to single digits. From what I've gleaned there really isn't much I'd need to do aside from keeping the birds dry and out of...

Welcome to BYC and thank you for your reply! My flock is doing pretty well...the "Wyandottes" are most likely Columbian Rocks, all have started laying. The older hens are much the same...I have not seen any evidence of molting, laying has slowed but I'm not always able to tell who lays what...

Oh yeah- I have an electric net on them at about 8,000 volts. Feed is brought into the shed at night. I do have a very secure barrel for feed still in the bag. Not much can be done to secure the shed door. It's a beautiful handmade door that want to keep, but no latch. Hopefully it will be good...

I love the idea of a varied diet, but have a real lack of storage. One outbuilding with a door on the property, and it's small. It was a dry sauna which we converted to a garden shed. Definitely not mouseproof, but it's what we can work with until spring at least. I have been providing oyster...

I don't plan to breed the hybrid gals. One Wyandotte is standing out that I'm considering keeping long term...early maturity and large size compared to her sisters. However, a mostly white bird seems like a bullseye for the many raptors we have around. Epigenetics is a very interesting field of...

That's an in-depth overview of corn! Thank you. I can't be sure that the younger chickens were fed corn from the start, there were a couple empty chick feed bags in the feed barrel I inherited. The Wyandottes are definitely better developed, more muscular, with better feather quality. Albeit...

I wanted to change to an all flock type feed, but my store only had feed labeled for layer and chicks. I'll take a closer look at percentages next time since I've been waiting for signs of molting. Since the vitamins seemed to help, would once a week be a suitable schedule? I'm happy I can let...

I acquired a flock of chickens from a couple who was moving in August. 1 ISA Brown, 2 Golden Comets, and 7 Columbian Wyandottes. The Wyandottes hatched around Easter 2021, the brown gals are of unknown age. The chickens and all of their gear were free in exchange for pulling down a half fallen...