Garden-Willy
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Any helpful tips to try and fix my problem ?
for 6 months my 3 laying hen have been laying eggs with metallic taste.
Ive contacted vets , petshops and NSW Department of Primary Industries and no one heard of this problem
Food:
Environment :
Things I have tied :
for 6 months my 3 laying hen have been laying eggs with metallic taste.
Ive contacted vets , petshops and NSW Department of Primary Industries and no one heard of this problem
Food:
- When we got them they were eating just barastoc poultry "golden yolk"
- In July change to "Red Hen 17" then change back in Aug because we thought the food was the problem.
- Use to give Chubby Dried Mealworms and stop because we thought might be the problem .
- We have stop giving food scrap in July ( potatoes skins, steam veggies , plain rice , never cooked food)
- Veggie patch compost
- Watson & Williams Fine Shell Grit
- Change water weekly
Environment :
- bedding : I have tried sugar cane mulch (Feb. to April) , hemp mulch (april-jun) ,wood chips (june to Aug.)
- In march we had a tree cut down and mulch around the yard , the chicken often scratch thought the garden ( thought maybe this was the reason ???)
- Feb 2021 when we first got the 2 easter eggs chicken we started to have chicken mite. treaded with food grade Diatomaceous Earth + "Pestene Lice & Mite Powder". also need to treat them in may , June and finally stop getting mite in July/Aug.
- cleaning coup weekly because we had the mite
- I don't spray my lawn, veggie garden , chickens are lock away for 2 week while using organic fertilizer
Things I have tied :
- vet suggested to try worming them , 10th September 2021 - with Vetsense Kilverm Poultry Wormer
- Facebook internet suggestion : 15th September 2021 "Vetsense Avi-VITAL" - multi vitamin, mineral, amino acid and prebiotic supplement