Recent content by Krux5506

Definitely hard. She didn't seem to mind me pushing on it either.

Hello! Any ideas what this lump could be from right on the back of my Easter Egger's head? I noticed it a month ago and thought maybe she just got pecked/lost a feather back there but the lump has definitely gotten bigger since then and more noticeable. All behaviors and egg laying have been the...

get rid of it.

One of the biggest things I've learned from this forum is how many people (on here) go with a higher protein feed with shell on the side rather than layer. Layer feeds often can be deficient in certain things. Whenever I see someone brag about how cheap their feed is, usually one look at the...

That study is pretty interesting. canola in general is a weird plant/product and I avoid it in chicken feeds.

Try to start local if you have any mills nearby. Unfortunately for me, I do not have any nearby, and even the ones that are somewhat close, like an hour or more away, have extremely unimpressive ingredients/nutrient content. So I'm at the mercy of ordering online, and it can be a crapshoot as...

My understanding is this issue is related more to just an increased omega 3 intake. The feed you are using is formulated with extra omega 3's so chances are if you get them off that feed and onto something without that (even if it still has flax) your issue likely will resolve.

right! occasionally I'll give mine a little bit of fish like tuna scraps or sardines if I get a tin that I happen to not like or something but i haven't ever given them enough to make any difference in their egg quality. I remember back before I had chickens I was buying organic eggs from a...

I've heard that too. Overload of omega 3's can do that to eggs. I don't really feed my chickens fish for that reason.

Always satisfying to put what often would otherwise be "waste" to perfectly good use like this. I cut a lot of firewood every year and save a lot of the chainsaw wood chips from that. I make firestarters out of them or lately I do what you did and just dump them in the chicken run. Keeps them...

I went back to the old chick feed. What in your opinion is an excessive level for methionine specifically for laying birds? The chick feed I went back to now lists .6% but the previous bags were .5%. Curious why they would bump it up a bit and I think it's one of the higher levels I've seen.

Not only will they love that, but you'll be quite impressed with how clean that carcass will be when they are done with it. I always get a kick out of it. very meticulous detail work they do with them!

If there's one thing I've learned from the far more experienced people on here than myself, it's how to pick apart a feed's deficiencies - and very typically these are layer feeds. So I would definitely start with the feed rather than trying to add treats to offset a deficient feed.

I could be wrong but you may have to do a reset/recalibration after putting new batteries in.

Here's the goofy thing though...They have another corn/soy free feed but it's 16% protein. THAT feed has .5% methionine which is a good level. the one i got, which is 18% protein also corn/soy free is the one that's .2% methionine. Seems like a very bizarre oversight to me. Here's the links to...