Posts by claudicles

Wow, you've got to feel sorry for some people. Fancy getting so worked up over grass that you wrote that note?   Weeds and chcikens go hand in hand. I'm on 2.5 acres with lots of garden so lots of weeds. Feeding the chickens...

I have tractors without a door on the night house and the easiest thing it to attach a wire floor. I have two with the wire being the grade of concrete reinforcing so the chickens can still scratch through it and help themselves to the...

That coop might hold 12 bantams but that doesn't mean it will comfortably house 12 bantams. The more crowded it is the more conflict you will have between your chickens. I wouldn't put more than 3 standard fowl in there.

Fallen leaves sound great. If you have more throw them in. they'll encourage bugs, be pleasant underfoot and rot down into a lovely compost.

I'm just adding my voice to those commenting on the hassles of using a wire floor. I have a wire floor in one of my tractors and the poop just clogs it up like mad. The only way to get it clean is to turn the tractor over and hose it....

I also have a wire grid under my tractors to stop predators digging in under it and it would flatten long grass and make it hard for the chickens to get at. They do have a really good dig away aroound the grass looking for bugs. I...

I mow my grass despite the tractors but I am on 2.5 acres and have three average sized tractors. I move them daily and mostly within a fairly small area but the chickens would still have problems keeping the grass short.  It looks...

I've used both sorts and they can both leak. I had no trouble getting the chicks to use them. I just touched a chick or two's beak to the ball bearing so they got some water and they figured it out from there. I had one batch of chicks...

I've seen some people advocate leaving the feeder empty one day in four to encourage the grils to clean up after themselves. You could try that. Oh and I don't think feeding ground shells encourages egg eating. Mine will egg eat if...

My chickens love to look out at the world too. I think if you don't have a run you may have more trouble with aggression between chickens.