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You might try Calf Manna and also warm water brought out twice a day.
I have 24 pullets, 4 breeds, almost 7 mo old. I get 17-20 eggs a day. No lights, approx 10 hr days here in E Tenn. I feel like they need the natural rest wintertime affords them. With hi-protein food and lights, I could boost it but I believe they would not live as long either. And they need some of the energy from their feed just to stay warm too. So with one lame runt, I may have 23 laying and I suspect this is good production for wintertime with no lights or special food. They get Dumor layer pellets , maybe 3 cups scratch/day, and all varieties of veggies, fruit scraps, beans, noodles, =bread crusts, etc for treats daily. The like sweet potatoes too and I have about 5 gallons left from the garden. I just throw one in there a day and they peck at it until it vanishes. (I cut up the first few I threw in to them until they got to liking them, now I just throw it in there whole) 7 are the gold comets (buff comets) and were the earliest ones to start laying at 4 months. I suspect if I had all just comets, I might get more eggs.
I have a large run at 2,000 sq ft so they get to run and jump/fly to one of three roosts outside, plus their two dust bath areas and one old rotten leaf pile to root in.
You might try Calf Manna and also warm water brought out twice a day.
I have 24 pullets, 4 breeds, almost 7 mo old. I get 17-20 eggs a day. No lights, approx 10 hr days here in E Tenn. I feel like they need the natural rest wintertime affords them. With hi-protein food and lights, I could boost it but I believe they would not live as long either. And they need some of the energy from their feed just to stay warm too. So with one lame runt, I may have 23 laying and I suspect this is good production for wintertime with no lights or special food. They get Dumor layer pellets , maybe 3 cups scratch/day, and all varieties of veggies, fruit scraps, beans, noodles, =bread crusts, etc for treats daily. The like sweet potatoes too and I have about 5 gallons left from the garden. I just throw one in there a day and they peck at it until it vanishes. (I cut up the first few I threw in to them until they got to liking them, now I just throw it in there whole) 7 are the gold comets (buff comets) and were the earliest ones to start laying at 4 months. I suspect if I had all just comets, I might get more eggs.
I have a large run at 2,000 sq ft so they get to run and jump/fly to one of three roosts outside, plus their two dust bath areas and one old rotten leaf pile to root in.
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