Posts by Rustywreck

Quote: Originally Posted by hennotrooster  I wish my girls would go in the coop.    I have been told that they will hold their heads up to drink the rain till they drown themselves, true? heard...

They are good diggers, and can climb some. Oh, they can jump very well also. Make sure the top is protected. My preference is to lay a 3 foot wide piece of fencing on the ground all the way around the pen/run to prevent digging.

I've never seen my chickens try to eat lumber. I wouldn't hesitate to use it in a coop.

Good luck with the decorations. I hope your girls appreciate it more than mine. My girls pulled down the curtains from the windows and art work from the walls and pooped on them, so I don't think they'd have much regard for Christmas...

As far as feed, I give them the same pellets year round. I also give them table scraps and leftovers. To help break the boredom, I hang a bird seed block for broccoli for them to peck at. My girls went outside yesterday, some of them...

Does the wood on the roof meet at the peak, or is there a gap? Your roofing looks like Ondura panels. If so, the ridge cap probably has the foam spacers. If there is a gap in the wood at the peak, and you do have the foam spacers you...

Up until this year I always had bronze - I didn't think the whites were very attractive to live with. I always started out with 15 birds, but  lost a third to half of my flock to raccoons. This year, I raised a few whites and...

Good luck with the mud. My chickens aren't a problem, but my turkeys create quite the mud/poop mess. The turkeys tend to want to spend all of their time in one corner of a large pen, which is sloped. They still create quite the mud...

As I wrote in my first reply, I left them an area of sand to scratch and dig. They don't need to dig up the whole thing

at least the rooster doesn't have to worry about tooth decay