- Jan 20, 2009
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I have 2 BO, 2 BR, and 2 RIRs, and they are about 6-7 months old. They started laying at the end of July, and in August I was getting an average of 4 eggs a day, now I'm getting 2-3 eggs a day? Sometimes 4, but I haven't gotten 5 in one day in a whole month. Unfortunately, I was really sick in August so I wasn't mixing their feed and my husband bought a bag of layer crumbles at the farm store (I'm not happy using this - I'm sure the ingredients are really, really gross). We're almost through it, then we'll be switching back to a mix of whole grains. They do some free-ranging, I bring them lots of garden scraps, bugs, and weeds from around my yard (they love clover, purslane and plantain), and have free access to oyster shell at all times. I thought they'd be up to laying 5-6 eggs a day at this point, and I'm wondering if something is going wrong with feeding? I give them about 4 c of food a day, and they seem to suck it down a lot faster than they did when it was whole grain based food.
Thanks for any help!
Thanks for any help!