NY chicken lover!!!!

[mderby48]

I thought protein was the trick to egg laying. I'll try calcium tomorrow. I mix warm water with their mash to warm them up. They love it! Also thank you Cass! I've already learned a lot on here!

 

[happyhensny]

Happyhens! I'm looking to get some Pekins and/or blue/black Swedish....would love to know if your friend will have ducklings, or hatching eggs!!


Also looking for a couple goslings for the spring.

I will ask him and get back to you!

I will have normal and white Mandarin ducklings later in spring too...

 

[Cass]

I thought protein was the trick to egg laying. I'll try calcium tomorrow. I mix warm water with their mash to warm them up. They love it! Also thank you Cass! I've already learned a lot on here!

The trick to egg laying is patience. While some treats will reduce production, others won't....the same treat that stops my flock from laying might encourage your flock to start laying....depends on breed. Chickens who don't have enough calcium might lay poruous or shell-less eggs....or maybe won't lay at all. Light. Some breeds lay all winter regardless of the amount of light, others you must suppliment their light to a full 12 hours a day or they won't lay. (Some breeds it takes 1 - 2 weeks of extra light to get them to lay, some 2 -3 days..) Have I meantioned that patience is the trick to getting hens to lay? Cuz for everything *I* tell you, someone else will tell you that their flock doesn't require what I am saying. Give them fresh unfrozen water, good feed and wait. They will lay eggs when they are good and gosh darn ready to.

And I swear. Spring IS coming.

 

[mderby48]

They just finished molting so I'm guessing in a couple weeks I will be getting 2 dozen a day again. Which would be great cause Im running low lol

 

[Gramma Chick]

Has anyone seen this ?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/s...o-as-antibiotic-substitute.html?smid=pl-share
Found it on the natural chicken thread

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

MARK

 

[Cass]

MARK

Mathew, Luke and John too?

 

[mderby48]

Has anyone on here ordered from poultry hatchery out of Fayette, ny?

 

[rancher hicks]

They will. It's almost spring. Right?

btw

Perhaps it's time to turn off the extra light. I know I'm getting more eggs than I need.

 

[rancher hicks]

Mathew, Luke and John too?

Yes but do you know the earliest written of the four? I do. It's was the bonus question on an exam in my Business Law class and I got it wrong but I won't forget the answer.