Recent content by Aml91

That must be it. We'll see if we can keep them in another fenced area behind the barn. Thanks everyone!

I've tried keeping my chickens in the goat pasture, which has 5 foot fencing, and they've managed to escape that before now. Does that kind of fencing work for chickens since it's harder to see through?

I definitely don't want them near the road. But they aren't over there regularly, my neighbor had just been putting some flowers in so the dirt was fresh, which made me think they were just attracted to that. If I put together a chicken friendly flower bed here, away from the road, could that...

Hello, My 3 Barred Rock hens keep going across our road and wallowing in my neighbor's flower beds. I was thinking it might work to make a sort of chicken sandbox with fresh dirt, maybe some mulch, maybe some compost, to keep them over here. Does that sound like it would work? Any experience...

I've been feeding my Easter Egger the calcium citrate pills for a few weeks, not every day because I wasn't seeing anything from her egg-wise and I didn't want to overload her if she's just not laying still. Recently I've been seeing poop with yellow yolk colored stuff in it, and I just noticed...

It sounded like FFH was going to keep getting more as the weeks go by, if we lose any of ours maybe I'll check them out as well for that kind of price

My two experiences with Tractor Supply chicks have been good, I might just stick with what I know. Thanks everyone!

I live in northwestern PA and I have two places near me that are selling chicks. I've bought from Tractor Supply before and the chicks were really healthy, but I went into a Family Farm and Home today and they had a lot more breeds available and were a little cheaper. Does anyone have...

There's also been no change in their diet since the fall when she was laying really regularly.

We feed them a scratch mix, 18% protein layer pellets, and they free range. She eats the same diet as my other 4, and they're all laying healthy eggs with good shells. I had gotten low on oyster shells but I put them back out Wednesday. They get various scraps too (apples, lettuce), but nothing...

I gave the girls yogurt yesterday and today, and just as I was going out to administer the calcium citrate, she was laying an egg without shell OR membrane, just the white and the yolk and the membrane all disconnected. That seems like a big step backwards and fraught with infection potential...

Awesome, thanks

Gotcha. She laid another one this morning, so definitely her. What format does calcium citrate come in?

I have 5 layers (3 Barred Rocks, 1 Black Copper Maran, 1 EE). The EE was laying just about every day through the fall and into the winter (it's been really mild this year), but we got a cold snap in January and she stopped laying altogether. My others slowed around that time too, but in the last...

Thanks very much!