WhenInRhome
Chirping
My girls have got to be the pickiest hens ever! They do not like cabbage (I hung some from a string for fun) or most veggies. They love grass, watermelon, grass, mealworms and grass. Seriously, they love grass. It is their favorite. I feed them chick start because they will not eat the layer pellets. I have run out of chick start and they refused to eat. They do not even eat their scratch anymore! It is so hot now all of my grass is either dead or not growing tall enough for me to pull it for them. I cannot afford to feed them watermelon and mealworms and feel bad if I am only giving them chick start. They seem bored and just stand around unless they have something to eat.
I read somewhere that you can put a few landscape lights in the run and that will attract bugs at night for them to get in the morning. I spread some straw and put 2 lights in a few nights ago. Hopefully it is working.
I have noticed a difference in the eggs when they have treats and when they dont. I went out of town 2 weeks ago and my neighbor watched my chickens. She has chickens too. She said she was getting 1-2 eggs a day from them. There are 4 BOs that are laying and 7 that have not started laying yet. She was just giving them scratch and feed. For a few days after I got back I was getting the same. After a few days of getting treats several times a day it was back to mostly 4 eggs a day. My normal routine is my hubby lets them out at 6:30 and throws in 2 cups of scratch. I go out around 11 and give them some mealworms and fruit. Then around 6 I go out and give them some leftover greens from the garden and more fruit.
It is getting expensive to feed them!
I read somewhere that you can put a few landscape lights in the run and that will attract bugs at night for them to get in the morning. I spread some straw and put 2 lights in a few nights ago. Hopefully it is working.
I have noticed a difference in the eggs when they have treats and when they dont. I went out of town 2 weeks ago and my neighbor watched my chickens. She has chickens too. She said she was getting 1-2 eggs a day from them. There are 4 BOs that are laying and 7 that have not started laying yet. She was just giving them scratch and feed. For a few days after I got back I was getting the same. After a few days of getting treats several times a day it was back to mostly 4 eggs a day. My normal routine is my hubby lets them out at 6:30 and throws in 2 cups of scratch. I go out around 11 and give them some mealworms and fruit. Then around 6 I go out and give them some leftover greens from the garden and more fruit.
It is getting expensive to feed them!