Jaitimer
In the Brooder
- Oct 30, 2019
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Hello! Our 8 chickens will be a year old end of July. Been outside in coop full time since last fall and started laying in December. For a few months were averaging 4-5 eggs a day (even through winter)...now only 1-2. Here is what I can tell you:
- they’re free range most of the day
- no evidence of parasites, etc as far as I can tell — they seem really healthy
- they’re fed organic layer feed and offered free choice oyster shell/grit
- we brought 4 rescue alpacas home in March who’d previously pastured with chickens, they all seem to coexist well
- we had a bobcat in the yard a few weeks ago that the alpacas effectively scared off (he never got too close to chickens but they definitely squawked a lot)
- we check the yard each day and nobody is laying/hiding eggs anywhere
- they’re secured in their coop each night