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View attachment 1913022 Your lavender chickens sound beautiful! Are they Orpingtons? When they reach a year old they can be called hens, right now they're still pullets. It sounds like the entire feeding program you've chosen is treats. Chicken scratch and bird seed both have very little nutrition to support egg laying for long. Do you offer oyster shells free choice to meet calcium needs?

Your birds would benefit from a good quality feed in pellets or crumbles (many organic brands available too) I prefer to feed Flock Raiser w/OS on the side, even for my older birds. Then I don't have to worry about changing feeds when I add new chicks in spring and the higher protein content seems to help with nutrition over winter and regrowing feathers after molting, though your young birds probably won't experience their first true molt until next year. Some people prefer to feed a layer raton. Goodies they find while out free ranging are perfectly fine and healthy, as well as many fruits and veggies, eggs and mealworms, but remember to keep all those types of yummy treats you've been feeding to a minimum... about 10% of their total daily diet.

Here's a couple links with more feeding info:

Feeding Chickens- An Introductory Guide

Tablescraps and Leftovers for Chickens

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Hi there, thank you for the feeding advice! I'm learning new chicken-related terms and their meanings... lol I seem to have switched "crumbles" for "scratch"! I actually feed my flock Layena crumbles, oops!
 
DiYMama540 said:
Welcome! Thanks for joining our flock! Have any pics of your girls you care to share? We all love pics!

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Thanks for the reminder! Attached are some photos of my girls. ^^ The hen with black feathers on her head and face was named Blacky. She was a Prarie Bluebell and got to lay 2 eggs before she passed away on the 3rd. She flew over the neighbor's fence and had a heart attack from fright of seeing the neighbor's dogs.

I have a trans rooster named Bungjulio (Bung). l say trans because he was born a hen and then turned into a rooster. It can very rarely happen in a flock if there's no males.

The two other Lavendars are Courage and Digger. Courage has more of a babyface and Digger looks more disgruntled.
 

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thecarmiearmy said:
Thanks for the reminder! Attached are some photos of my girls. ^^ The hen with black feathers on her head and face was named Blacky. She was a Prarie Bluebell and got to lay 2 eggs before she passed away on the 3rd. She flew over the neighbor's fence and had a heart attack from fright of seeing the neighbor's dogs.

I have a trans rooster named Bungjulio (Bung). l say trans because he was born a hen and then turned into a rooster. It can very rarely happen in a flock if there's no males.

The two other Lavendars are Courage and Digger. Courage has more of a babyface and Digger looks more disgruntled.
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Hens do not turn into roosters....

the rest of my post was edited. I did not and do not agree with the edit. Therefore I deleted the edit.

suffice it to say whatever sex chromosomes the bird is born with it will die with.
 
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