Baby Girl, a Barr Rock raised form 5 days old. laid a few small practice eggs months ago. now there are just crushed tiny shrived looking no shelled occasional ones in her poo. she goes in the nest box with no results. she even whines and seems miserable for a while.....
The other Barr Rock is a bit younger and lays an egg everyday or so.....then the youngest hen, then started lying her first egg last week, in a Pet Carrier I fixed up in their main run.... Even thought there ae two nest boxe in the one coop and three in the bigger coop......I got the other two BR as pullets couple months ago..... The reason I have two coops and runs is a long story. I gave away the older two year old set last month . cause the two diff rOO fought constantly. then ... long story. LOL
I gave my straight run STARTER food for weeks then when ran out gave them Layin crumbles. with always electrolytes for water . Now mostly corn.. whole or cracked..., millet, milo, BOSS, niger seeds, peanuts, organic pellets, Feather Fixer....
a little beans with brown rice
She, BG, is dominant hen, hogs about everything. the pellets are her last choice..ALSO give electrolyte and probotics in most of their water everyday. I mix up a quart at a time...
They have two runs now enclosed all over ....then the big fenced 100 by 100 yard.. then an hour or two before they go in I let them run around the rest of property, semi supervised...
oh I also will mix up some "KICKING Chicken" in the corn flour left from me grinding whole corn or the "dust " from the small pellets......
I bought the "NUTRI Drench" .... she will not take it..... SHE will turn her head and fight to get down trying of course with little syringes.... the small ones I gave the Valzaban, and before the Safeguard Goat wormer in...
I also bought some REooster Booster pellets....
Could she be lacking some basic nutrients or is it a physical problem, maybe from not being on Starter her whole young chick days???
thanks yall
The other Barr Rock is a bit younger and lays an egg everyday or so.....then the youngest hen, then started lying her first egg last week, in a Pet Carrier I fixed up in their main run.... Even thought there ae two nest boxe in the one coop and three in the bigger coop......I got the other two BR as pullets couple months ago..... The reason I have two coops and runs is a long story. I gave away the older two year old set last month . cause the two diff rOO fought constantly. then ... long story. LOL
I gave my straight run STARTER food for weeks then when ran out gave them Layin crumbles. with always electrolytes for water . Now mostly corn.. whole or cracked..., millet, milo, BOSS, niger seeds, peanuts, organic pellets, Feather Fixer....
a little beans with brown rice
She, BG, is dominant hen, hogs about everything. the pellets are her last choice..ALSO give electrolyte and probotics in most of their water everyday. I mix up a quart at a time...
They have two runs now enclosed all over ....then the big fenced 100 by 100 yard.. then an hour or two before they go in I let them run around the rest of property, semi supervised...
oh I also will mix up some "KICKING Chicken" in the corn flour left from me grinding whole corn or the "dust " from the small pellets......
I bought the "NUTRI Drench" .... she will not take it..... SHE will turn her head and fight to get down trying of course with little syringes.... the small ones I gave the Valzaban, and before the Safeguard Goat wormer in...
I also bought some REooster Booster pellets....
Could she be lacking some basic nutrients or is it a physical problem, maybe from not being on Starter her whole young chick days???
thanks yall