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An update for posterity- As winter has set in we continued to give feed to the chickens (as their normal prey were all holed up for winter) starting on the 9th of November. No change. However, Mrs K. Seems to have nailed it-on December 25th (Glory to God for all things!) we found one single...

Well we’ve introduced feed, both scratch and layer feed…they aren’t really interested in it. I built a feeder for them and laid out a few pounds of feed after I got home from work one day and they kinda pecked around at it but basically left it alone. Next morning a few birds pecked at it, but...

Red pepper flakes and cayenne pepper. Also said if she had leftover sourdough starter it will go into the mix. I was dubious of that, but it makes her happy so why not lol

That was my suspicion, hence why we locked them up for a few days. I was shocked that they still laid nothing in the coop Good question. I know red pepper or something like that but I’ll get details and report back Updated! We are in southwest oklahoma. Admittedly it was an oddly wet spring...

40 is our immediate homestead. They rarely venture off the 5 acres in our front yard. It’s notable when they do. Single stationary building. Elevated. Essentially just big enough for their roosts and attached nestboxes. 3 water sources, one for them, and a large Waterer each for our sheep and...

That’s why we have so few roosters-2 of them to 40 hens. We did have issues initially but we solved that by doing in our excess roosters. We’ve never fed them anything, to include when they were making an egg a day. We do supplement them with baked/crushed egg shells, but no protein. I can’t...

So we have about 50 free-range Australorps. 40-ish hens, 2 roosters, and 9 that were hatched and raised over the summer (out of 20 is hatchlings, only the 9 survived). Received them June 21st of last year. They started laying in October-November and laid A TON of eggs. So much so that we were...