Chicken coops plans

Eating green stuff and bugs is great for chickens. Mine eat plenty. However, if you want your chickens to produce lots of eggs, and not get reproductive issues, then you do need to feed them a good-quality layer feed as well as an extra calcium supplement, such as oyster shell, sold at any feedstore. Both should be fed free-choice. I chose a low-soy organic feed because the number 1 cause of death in hens 2+ years old in my state (according to my state lab) is reproductive cancer, and I suspected that the extra estrogen from soy or the herbicides/pesticides/GMOs might play a factor. You also don’t want to modify the amount of light they get in the winter, as that has reliably shown in research studies to produce reproductive cancer. I don’t want to eat eggs from chickens with reproductive cancer… I no longer have cancer in my flocks after making these changes, and feeding lots of fresh organic produce and low-soy feed with flax for omega 3.

If a hen runs low on calcium, she will rob her bones of it and could get osteoporosis. If she is low on calcium when she lays eggs, the shells get thinner and might break, causing an egg-eating habit, or if they break in side her, a reproductive infection. Also, hens who lay eggs while in a low calcium state will have more flaccid muscles where the egg comes out, which can cause the inside of the egg laying tract to touch the ground, allowing pathogens to gain access. So it’s so important to make sure they always have that oyster shell available free choice. I have 8 year old hens in my flock who are still laying lots of eggs. They don’t lay as many as they used to, but they are much larger, so I think it evens out. Plus, if I wanted new chicks, these hens are proven healthy and hardy, so I would much prefer hatching those.

Hens who get a high protein diet (16% layer) lay more eggs. A low protein diet, in addition to other factors, causes them to stop laying eggs. In fact, if you want to get your hens to m

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