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We used to live in NH where they would say your best crop is rocks. New ones would come up all the time. Sometimes you'd start digging to get a rock move only to find its tge biggest boulder underneath, lol. I actually love rocks? Great backdrops for your garden.

My whole 7 acres has no stones. Amazing, I know, but it's what's called black dirt, like pure clay that gets as hard as cement and cracks in the heat of the summer. In fact here you have to water your foundation otherwise the cracks can go under your house and uplift your house and that takes...

That's what I was thinking. Getting a truck load of small gravel but someone said it would be too big and wouldn't work.

What did she recommend for layer food? The high protein is only good until they start laying and the layers need calcium.

We're looking at the PVC right now. I can't believe how expensive it got! They want $15 for 2 ft of the 3". But we got some 2" at home so that'll work.

Great minds think alike. I actually have a sand bath in the coop and I mix grit in it. Thank you!

I have 53 chickens and 36 in brooders. I'm thinking I might get away with once a month...maybe.

Thank you! What a great idea. I had found some containers around the house and have gone through about a cup a day for both. I've seen them flinging it around. I'm definitely going to make this. Oh about grass clippings. Grass clippings is great. I read if they get really long pieces of grass...

Thanks so much for all the ideas. I have 7 acres full of weeds and grass. Last year the electric Co trimmed the trees and I has several truck loads put out back. We've been putting loads in the chickens yard to help with the rain. They love it. Now I'll do grass also.

Thank you. I didn't realize chickens were that smart, my bad. The babies get crumbles, and my hens are 7 months old and get layer pellets. Unfortunately there are 6 roosters out of the 53 who are eating layer pellets also. I'm thinking of somehow separating them and feeding them meat...

I'm the same. I have a nesting hawk on my property. The first week I had the chickens outside an owl showed up. We have coyotes, possums, raccoons, snakes, and now my neighbors are telling me some wild pigs have been tearing up the property behind us. My chickens are closed in at night in a...

We're feeding DuMOR 16% Layer Pellet Poultry Feed. I also ferment it because it's supposed to be more nutritious. I had a bunch of eggs that were getting a bit old so I hard boiled them and then crushed them up with the shells and gave it to them. We sprinkle a cup of scratch around their yard...

Excellent. I'm going to look for that the next time I'm in TS. Thank you.

The shell-less thing was only twice. I think it was a hen who just started laying. Hasn't happened again. It was the weirdest feeling to go under a hen to get and egg and feel that. I thought it was the hen. Yuck. So chickens know when they need some and will take it at that time?

We're feeding DuMOR 16% Layer Pellet Poultry Feed. I also ferment their feed. No stones in my soil at all 😕 My Sussex are laying small eggs with an occasional very large double yolker.

I have been giving grit also I was just wondering about if it could be one or the other. What you said makes total sense. I make fermented food and have feeders for the pellets. I have been mixing grit on with both and putting it in their sand box. You said a bag of grit can last for years...

We're feeding DuMOR 16% Layer Pellet Poultry Feed. Unfortunately we don't have stones, rocks, sand or anything in our soil. Just clay that gets cement hard as the weather warms? I was thinking of getting a dump truck full of gravel. I was just wondering about the oyster shell because it's the...

I have a bunch of Speckled Sussex. Everything says that they lay large eggs. My girls have been laying for about the end of January. They are almost 8 months old. They are laying small eggs, with an occasional large egg but small seems to be their norm at the moment. Someone told me I should...