Author Topic: A day of firsts  (Read 5823 times)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: A day of firsts
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2012, 10:19:38 pm »
If it fits with your life, give them a ration of pellets in the morning and a scattering of wheat late afternoon.  For 'ration', check what the bag says and give them that or a little less if they're free range with good forage available.  If you still get double yolkers, cut the pellets down until you don't.  :)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: A day of firsts
« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2012, 09:13:36 am »
Thanks for the advice Sally.

They do free range and have their pick of everything around. So i wll do as you suggest for a bit.

Sally
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: A day of firsts
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2012, 10:14:27 am »
We had a spell when our RIRs came into lay of having double yolkers. They settled down after a while ..... could just be the hens getting their laying pattern sorted. Could also get tiny eggs with no yolk. An egg and then nothing for a few days and so on.

Well done hennys   :thumbsup:

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: A day of firsts
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2012, 06:19:29 pm »
All 4 of our hybrids had double yolkers in the first few weeks when they started to lay,too. They settled and we have had none since.

cooped-up

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: A day of firsts
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2012, 08:22:45 pm »
brilliant :thumbsup:

 

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