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[Happy chickens!]

I have noticed my girls lay much better if they get a 'mash' in the evening. I always thought they liked to eat during the day, so their food is always topped up when I let them out in the morning.

 

In the evening they often get a mash of any leftovers (not too many in our house!) bokashi, cod liver oil and limestone flour as one of them lays thin shelled eggs, with a couple of cupfuls of their pellets all softened with hot water. When I go away egg productin always goes down as my egg sitters don't do the mash - even though they still have a good supply of pellets.

 

Surely a bit of bokashi etc shouldn't make much difference? They do like to tuck in as if they are half starved though!

[Patricia W]

they don't like change. My egg production has always gone down when we've had sitters. So it may be the extra food, but it could be they miss you!

 

Tricia