Someone laid an egg!

[Appalachickens]

Nice! I’m eagerly awaiting my first egg - my oldest four girls are 16 weeks old. I’ve noticed a couple starting to check out the nest boxes and theyr combs and wattles are getting more red.

 

[SJsChickies]

Nice! I’m eagerly awaiting my first egg - my oldest four girls are 16 weeks old. I’ve noticed a couple starting to check out the nest boxes and theyr combs and wattles are getting more red.

What breeds do you have? My Sapphire Gem laid her first egg at exactly 16 weeks on the dot! Some lay super early. Its crazy. I hear Leghorns lay early!

 

[Appalachickens]

My 16 week olds are a calico princess (my guess is she’ll be first), a black sex-link, a cinnamon queen, and a California tan. Coming up behind them are the 12 weekers ( Wyandotte, cream legbar, starlight green egger and Easter Egger) and the 10 weekers (barred rock red star, buff Orpington, speckled Sussex and another EE). What’s interesting to me is that the size differences between the groups are disappearing. It takes me a second now to know if I’m looking at the barred rock or the older EE, say, or at the cinnamon queen, starlight or the red star. I think it won’t be too long before they are all about the same size.

 

[Laurasb65]

Right now she's in a flock of 5 males and 4 females. So I ran out today to find that all flock feed I've been wanting and some oyster shell.

The place I was getting my starter feed from does not carry the all flock variety of feeds from Tucker Milling. So I found another place that did. A bit more out of the way, but mini pellets and my birds love it. Also got a 50 lbs bag of a calcium supplement for $10!

Interestingly enough, I stumbled upon a local feed store that carried Kalmbach feeds. Picked up a 50 lbs. of All Flock for $18, going to see how they like the Kalmbach vs the Tucker Milling.

I have mine on the Kalmbach All flock pellet 20%. Kalmbach is the only feed that I have used, never had any issues. I also bought there grit the chickens really like it compared to other brands.

 

[SJsChickies]

My 16 week olds are a calico princess (my guess is she’ll be first), a black sex-link, a cinnamon queen, and a California tan. Coming up behind them are the 12 weekers ( Wyandotte, cream legbar, starlight green egger and Easter Egger) and the 10 weekers (barred rock red star, buff Orpington, speckled Sussex and another EE). What’s interesting to me is that the size differences between the groups are disappearing. It takes me a second now to know if I’m looking at the barred rock or the older EE, say, or at the cinnamon queen, starlight or the red star. I think it won’t be too long before they are all about the same size.

My red sexlinks started laying at 17 and 18 weeks! Getting that first egg is the best. You have such a nice mix. Your eggs are going to be gorgeous

 

[SJsChickies]

I have mine on the Kalmbach All flock pellet 20%. Kalmbach is the only feed that I have used, never had any issues. I also bought there grit the chickens really like it compared to other brands.

I use the same. My chickens and chicks love it! And I have a big dish of oysters shells for the layers.

 

[Airyaman]

I have mine on the Kalmbach All flock pellet 20%. Kalmbach is the only feed that I have used, never had any issues. I also bought there grit the chickens really like it compared to other brands.

I am almost out of the bag of Kalmbach. My birds and I prefer the TM. They seem to be able to eat them without turning some of it into crumble and dust. I end up having to get rid of some of the Kalmbach because the bottom of the feeders end up with a layer of fine crumble and dust and they aren't eating that.

 

[Appalachickens]

My red sexlinks started laying at 17 and 18 weeks! Getting that first egg is the best. You have such a nice mix. Your eggs are going to be gorgeous

Maybe just a week or two to go for me!!

 

[Appalachickens]

I have mine on the Kalmbach All flock pellet 20%. Kalmbach is the only feed that I have used, never had any issues. I also bought there grit the chickens really like it compared to other brands.

I've been using the Kalmbach Chickhouse Reserve for fermented feed, in addition to their dry feed. Well, I don't know that it's actually fermented - it's more an overnight wet mash. But they love it. There is never a drop of it left at the end of the day.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I've been using the Kalmbach Chickhouse Reserve for fermented feed, in addition to their dry feed. Well, I don't know that it's actually fermented - it's more an overnight wet mash. But they love it. There is never a drop of it left at the end of the day.

I’ve started doing more of an overnight mash, too. Once summer really hit, fermentation would just take off and become too sour, I guess.