Chicken info required

Spitfire · 07-01-10, 23:20

My chickens are free range so to speak. Let them out of the coop and they roam around all day round the house. I'm guessing this will mean that I don't have to feed them grit??

In saying that we have not seen any grass since before Christmas due to the snow

Reburner · 07-01-10, 23:49

If they are free range then they shouldn't need grit your right. as G_S has one we've put a lot of straw down in the coop and the run and are feeding them extra corn and scraps (on top of all the layer pellets they can eat). We are still getting 4 or 5 eggs a day from 6 hens.

slowsider · 08-01-10, 14:06

It's the water supply that's proving a problem at the moment - out with a kettle first thing to melt the ice.

Average of three eggs from 5 hens - so you are doing well, ReB

Bike Breaker · 13-01-10, 13:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by XT500

Cocks and hens should be kept seperate if the eggs are for human consumption - you really don't want to accidentally serve up a fertilised egg.

Not only that, when the sap rises, 7 cock birds all trying to be daddy with only 5 hens could result in a bloodbath.

ink ink · 18-01-10, 20:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by XT500

Cocks and hens should be kept seperate if the eggs are for human consumption - you really don't want to accidentally serve up a fertilised egg.

Bollocks to that. Fertilised eggs taste the same.

But one cock is the right number to have. He'll stop the hens wandering separately.

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Chicken info required

My chickens are free range so to speak. Let them out of the coop and they roam around all day round the house. I'm guessing ...