I've got 14 free roaming hens who live in an old cattle truck with plenty of nest boxes and perches. i have one cockerel that looks after them all. Some of the girls are ex barn/battery most are re-homed from friends who've moved house. 3 are Marans I bought 4 months ago supposedly about a month off point of lay. They do roam free so I've searched and search the 1/4 acre of garden. Although they do also get out into the neighbouring field and road side. They are given mixed corn every morning (about a handful each thrown out into the grit so they have to scratch for it. They get kitchen scraps and poultry spice and all the egg shells crushed up and mixed in on as daily basis. i also boil up all veg scrapings for them . If i'm lucky i'm getting 1 egg a day and have been for months. one Maran lay one teeny weeny first egg. I've kept them in the cop - which is lit between 8am and 10pm for 48 hrs and had no eggs - so don't think they're laying at all. Any suggestions - friends with hens seen to be getting about 50% of hens laying daily at the moment[/size]
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