My husband thinks that we should only feed our chickens food that has Omega 3 in it. I recently read an article that said: “When feeding the hens heart-healthy omega-3s to enrich their eggs, if the level of supplementation is too high, the birds’ egg production will be severely curtailed and...
Hello everyone, my first post but I’ve been looking and researching for months now. My chickens are approximately 10 weeks, and I’m still undecided on the best local food to purchase for my chickens when they start laying. If there is more information for this question elsewhere already posted -...
My 4-Hers have golden sexlinks, black sexlinks, and red sexlinks, that they get through the Chick Chain each year. They have has as many as 60 birds. They have 47 right now. They sell the eggs and this money is used for spending as well as college/"flying the coop" savings. A year ago we...
I have been raising chickens for about 8 years. I have 10 hens now about 1.5 years old. They are confined to a partially covered dirt run and very spacious coop. The run is quite large about 90 feet by about 6-8 feet with plenty of perches and ladders for them to move around in and on. I...