Amount you feel = the amount of eggs you get

[mm22kids]

I have a gentleman who rents my barn and he has his chickens and I have mine. Its a hobby for both of us. Part of payment is that he feeds my chickens. Once spring rolled around I noticed I wasn't getting as many eggs as I thought I would so I bought a bag of egg layer pellets and a big feeder and just loaded it up for the chickens to free feed. I now am getting more and more eggs I am so happy I have eggs for boiling eggs for baking and eggs for selling and eggs for hatching.

Any one else ever delt with this?

 

[FireTigeris]

For payment take the money for feed or have him bring the right feed to you... I do not trust other people to treat my chickens like I do.

 

[donrae]

I would run into the same type of problems with boarding horses. If the feed was included in the board, they skimped and my horses never looked good. If I paid for the hay seperate or bought it myself, my horses looked great.

Do you need to re-examine your agreement?

 

[FireTigeris]

Oh and to answer your questions, overfeeding can drop egg production, as can underfeeding, short length of day, confinement, rapid changes of barometric pressure, stress, illness, fear, wrong nutrients...

 

[mm22kids]

Thanks guys, yea, I think I'm going to take over feeding or at least adding to there feed.

And I'm laughing at the miss spelling of the title of this post.

 

[hunter109]

i use to use a diff feed but i switched to a layer and you can see a big diff in egg and shell streght

 

[Fred's Hens]

Laying is absolutely related to proper quality of feed and proper quantity of feed.

Except for the occasional need for fill in help, no one, nobody will ever care for your chickens as well as you.