Posts by NewGuineaChooks

Sounds like fun! That would be quite a size difference you're seeing!

Yay! I always think broody hens are fun. It's sort of like surprise presents that you get in 3 weeks when the chicks hatch.Most broody mama's take good care of their chicks and will make the other chickens keep out of the way. Just make...

Well, we keep the dogs 'away from the chickens' instead of the other way around. We bought an electronic fence pulse machine ($200) and a wireless radio collar for each of the dogs ($50ish). We plugged it in the corner of the living...

I would feed -all- of them grower/raiser feed until your girls start laying. The pullets don't need the extra calcium until they are making egg shells, and the little ones can actually have bone growth issues if they have too much...

That's a neat idea!We keep ours in a basket on the kitchen table. When we collect the eggs at the end of the day, we pencil the date on each one, so we have to sort through the basket to find the older ones.

Yes, you can. Best to do so in the evening after it's gotten dark. The hen will be a little calmer then. Use gloves if she is very aggressive. Day 14 is a good day to candle them. Take a couple eggs out at a time, and mark them with a...

Wow! And ouch for that hen!

Well, this is probably bad news for Duke: I have -never- (25 years of chickens) known a rooster to get mild-mannered in his old age. They get gradually more aggressive as they age, and you will likely have more and more problems with...

Yes. If you have two broody hens in the same area and they both hatch out chicks, they will each try to protect their own chicks by pecking the chicks of the other hen, to keep them away.  Some hens are more tolerant than others....

Is the old/small coop portable? If so I'd put it next to the new one, so the chickens can see each other and interact through the wire.If the old coop is not portable, your best option is to rig some kind of tempoary chicken wire...