I couldn’t figure out why I kept finding Serama Eggs under my Speckled hen while she is sitting on eggs for hatching. Today I found out why, she is making her way under the Speckled Sussex laying her eggs and taking off afterward. The smaller egg is the Serama egg.
I have owned Buff Orphintons, Sex Links, Brahmas, Specked Sussex, Black Copper Marans, Seramas, Americanas, New Hampshire’s and Cream Legbars. By far the meanest breed has been the Cream Legbars. I raised all these breeds from chicks and handled them a lot, most didn’t like it but I did it to be...
I thought you’d like to see what happens when the chickens are lacking something in their diet. I use oyster enhancing feed as well as throw in crunched egg shells and crushed egg shells. They have a run and eat weeds as well as table scraps, any ideas?
I have 4 BO that started laying double yolkers at 2.6 oz when they first started, which is expected some times at first. Now they have been laying between 1.5 and 1.9 oz eggs consistently since June. I feed them the same as I did before with layer feed in the morning, mixed grains at mid...