Posts by Dutch552

Mine stay within 100 yards of the coop and run either in the pasture or in the woods. Now if they see either me or my wife walking around within their sight they will RUN to see if we have anything for them. Crazy chickens...

The last several bags of Purina that I have bought have actually had a good ratio of corn to other grains. Can't say that I can complain. Maybe you got a bum lot?

I hang both to minimize spillage on the floor. The bedding stays drier and cleaner. For the 3.5 gallon fount, I sit it on a cinder block and then run a chain from the handle to the rafter to keep anyone from getting on top of it and...

Get a good pair of offset 90 degree shears and be done with it. I just roofed and am in the middle os siding my coop with metal and I get a lot more control form the shears over the circular saw.

I am in Hart County just south of Hodgenville. I called the Hardin County Hatchery and the woman said they no longer hatch birds there but she places orders on one-day olds from a supplier just like you can order direct from Mt...

Mine love it. They play in it, eat it, whatever...

Mt Healthy has some nice looking birds, but they're about 180 miles one-way for me to drive.

We have very few flat spots on our land also. I will take some pictures tomorrow and post up how I elevated the coop floor off the ground to level it. It makes for a step up into the coop but it creates a nice, level, dry floor for you...

We have a truckload dumped every few months in an empty stall in our barn that we use only for sawdust/shavings for the horses and chickens. As long as your floor doesn't get wet from rain then you're good to go an we haven't had any...

I wanted a dirt floor coop but we have serious water drainage issues and I was force to raise it up in order to level the floor. So she's on the ground on one back corner and about 16 inches above the ground in the front raised on...