DonnaDonut55
Chirping
- Jul 10, 2022
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Hello. We are new to this site and quite new to owning back yard chickens.
I recently visited Google, like you do, to ask about our chickens and came across an article on here. I did write a reply but can't find the article now. It was someone saying that feeding backyard chickens layers pellets was not always a good idea, so I read some other posts and became quite confused by the end. We bought our 6 chickens from the farmer who also sold us the layer pellets and the oyster shell. They were 15 weeks when we bought them and are now 22 weeks old. 3 of them are laying mostly quite small eggs, but that's fine, we all have to start somewhere. We have two white leghorns, with black markings but one of them sometimes seems to sneeze or cough or squeak. The other white one has sloppy mustardy yellow poo where the others look the normal ice cream cone style. I think the two white ones are laying and one of our speckled ones so far.
So my main worry is obviously the white chicks sneeze and funny poo but also after reading the article about not giving layer pellets I am worried wether to take notes or to just carry on as advised by the farmer and some of the people who posted after the article stated, that layer pellets were good to us.
Thank you for taking the time to read my "war and peace" section and hello everyone xx Donna & my chooks
I recently visited Google, like you do, to ask about our chickens and came across an article on here. I did write a reply but can't find the article now. It was someone saying that feeding backyard chickens layers pellets was not always a good idea, so I read some other posts and became quite confused by the end. We bought our 6 chickens from the farmer who also sold us the layer pellets and the oyster shell. They were 15 weeks when we bought them and are now 22 weeks old. 3 of them are laying mostly quite small eggs, but that's fine, we all have to start somewhere. We have two white leghorns, with black markings but one of them sometimes seems to sneeze or cough or squeak. The other white one has sloppy mustardy yellow poo where the others look the normal ice cream cone style. I think the two white ones are laying and one of our speckled ones so far.
So my main worry is obviously the white chicks sneeze and funny poo but also after reading the article about not giving layer pellets I am worried wether to take notes or to just carry on as advised by the farmer and some of the people who posted after the article stated, that layer pellets were good to us.
Thank you for taking the time to read my "war and peace" section and hello everyone xx Donna & my chooks
and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.
to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!
