Looking to re home my small flock of 5 birds. They are right at 1 year old and are fantastic layers. I have 3 golden comets and 2 easter eggers. The comets lay XL to Jumbo size eggs and lay daily even through winter and when they were molting. The easter eggers lay almost daily and one lays pink...
LOL yes, it is our favorite too. This one is VERY curious but also very shy. When we got her the people were novice chicken people and just threw them in with their larger birds with no integration what so ever so she was missing lots of feathers from being pecked and chased constantly and was a...
Nearly any type of domesticated fowl will clean out an entire garden in very short time if left alone to it, especially if there are vegetables or other things they like. Can you fence in your garden so they don't have access or put up some netting around the flower boxes?
You aren't too far away, we moved our comets out at 6 weeks but we had about 2 weeks of really warm weather then so they had nice time to adjust. It was 26 here this morning, when I went to open their door they were just hanging out on their roost and within a minute or two were heading down the...
Depending on the size of your yard you may want to look into one of the plastic or resin compost barrels. Once it starts....composting, it can get a bit smelly so I probably wouldn't put it right next to the coop/run since chickens can have sensitive respiratory systems it is one less thing to...