For backyard chickens, the number 18 means the same thing. Eighteen weeks is the age when most egg-laying breeds are considered adults. Most excitingly, it’s the time when many breeds will lay their ...

The Winners After testing various chicken feed brands and a mix of mash, pellets, and crumbles over the years, my go-to feed for our two flocks of layers is Scratch and Peck Organic Chicken Feeds.

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In Episode 150 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Dr. Patrick Biggs joins us to talk about keeping the layer hens in your flock well-fed and healthy. We’ll be learning about the nutrients in chicken ...

Before there was the chicken and the egg, there was chicken food. And feeding chickens today comes with a high price tag and carbon footprint. Researchers at Australia’s University of New England are ...

Brian Cosby from the Provide & Protect channel says he gets the same question over and over: what do you do with old birds ...

Female poultry birds which are reared for egg laying are called layers. There are mainly two classifications of poultry birds, namely egg producers; that is, the laying birds or layers and meat ...

When Adam Mason, owner of HEAL Farms in Apollo thinks about buying his next order of chicken feed, he gets a pit in his stomach. “I’m a little worried because we have to get feed soon, and I don’t ...

Feeding chickens in the summer months seems fairly easy. We let ours free range – with supervision since we have a den of foxes around – and they eat pretty much anything and everything, especially ...