- Dec 12, 2012
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Hi guys,
I'm new to caring for chooks. Bought four 6 m.o. ISA brown hens off a farm back around September and after a week or so of settling into their run + coop I started getting 1 egg a day. I thought that this would increase over time but it hasn't :\ . I've tried a few different things to nudge the others along: Put a light in for a couple of hours in the morning (when it was still short days- im in aus), fed laying pellets in addition to free range seed mix, wormed them, fed crushed shells to them for calcium.
My coop has at the moment a couple of nesting boxes, and as far as I can tell it's the one hen and it lays consistently in one of them. She doesn't appear clucky I dont think.. But i've never gotten more than 1 egg per day. Not sure what the problem may be.
Run size is maybe 10m x 6m, coop size 1m x 1.5m
Any advice would be really appreciated!!
Thanks,
Matt
I'm new to caring for chooks. Bought four 6 m.o. ISA brown hens off a farm back around September and after a week or so of settling into their run + coop I started getting 1 egg a day. I thought that this would increase over time but it hasn't :\ . I've tried a few different things to nudge the others along: Put a light in for a couple of hours in the morning (when it was still short days- im in aus), fed laying pellets in addition to free range seed mix, wormed them, fed crushed shells to them for calcium.
My coop has at the moment a couple of nesting boxes, and as far as I can tell it's the one hen and it lays consistently in one of them. She doesn't appear clucky I dont think.. But i've never gotten more than 1 egg per day. Not sure what the problem may be.
Run size is maybe 10m x 6m, coop size 1m x 1.5m
Any advice would be really appreciated!!
Thanks,
Matt