Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..!

mardatha

Ok . I battered hell out of them with a tin of baked beans

Mojisola

Chooks need the calcium from egg shells or oyster shell. They also need grit to grind up their food in their crops. Don't leave them too long without access to grit.

mardatha

We will be up at the agricultural stores on Thursday Moj

Gigervamp

Bags of mixed corn usually contain shell.

RebekahR

I am planning on putting a coop up my old veggie patch. This is currently full of soil and will soon have weeds too LOL. What do I need to lay down down the soil for them as a base? Will the weeds be dangerous?

Gigervamp

They'll enjoy scratching around in the dirt and might eat some of the weeds, so I'd leave it as it is.

Edited to add, we have a yew tree in our garden which is poisonous, but the girls ignore the bits that fall off the tree, so I think they generally know what's ok and what's not.

mardatha

Bought them a kilo of mixed shell and a kilo of corn/meal worms. They take it from my hand .

happycrafter_2

Gigervamp wrote: »

They'll enjoy scratching around in the dirt and might eat some of the weeds, so I'd leave it as it is.

Edited to add, we have a yew tree in our garden which is poisonous, but the girls ignore the bits that fall off the tree, so I think they generally know what's ok and what's not.

My chickens have completely weeded my borders, saves me a job now! and when one gets a worm they dont half run away fast from the others so funny

Gigervamp

happycrafter wrote: »

My chickens have completely weeded my borders, saves me a job now! and when one gets a worm they dont half run away fast from the others so funny

Mine won't touch the nettles that have popped up all over the place. :mad:

It is funny watching them when one has found a worm though. It's like the keystone kops with the others all chasing after! :rotfl:

happycrafter_2

Gigervamp wrote: »

Mine won't touch the nettles that have popped up all over the place. :mad:

It is funny watching them when one has found a worm though. It's like the keystone kops with the others all chasing after! :rotfl:

So true!!! :rotfl:

I just treated mine to a nice new coop off ebay, thought I had lost one of my chucks then heard a scratching sound down the side of the house. It had walked in to the flat box that the coop had arrived in as flat packed and laid 2 eggs in it. nestled in all the paper that was used to pack it. they really made me laugh yesterday all sunbathing and fighting over the dust bath they made.

Can't remember my life before chickens :T