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 chickens have a backup feed that they can’t live without in case Scratch and Peck is on back order, or I forget to grab it from the feed store. Nutrena’s NatureWise Layer Feed is the bag I always ...

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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 ...