Here is my new coop that I bought in Kentucky...thanks to sugarbush! I love the coop. It's just what I was looking for.
Here is the inside of the coop and the new roost I put in.
My name is Glenda and I live in Indiana. I have pretty much been a hoosier my whole life....minus the 11 years I lived in Illinois. Since I was a child I had a love for animals, but I never thought I would ever raise chickens. In June my daughter was allowed to bring home two chicks from a...
I only have 3 chickens, so my list isn't too long.
1. Let them out of the coop, unless they already pushed the door open
2. Check water and feeder
3. Rinse waterer and refill
4. Fill feeder (usually twice a week)
5. They go into the coop at night on their own. I do a head count and shut the...
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I rehomed this poor guy to the Amish man who built my coop. He was getting picked on and lost his tail feathers, plus his legs splotchy and not completely black and my daughter wants to raise show chickens.
With the four I had, I thought I had 3 roos when they were 8 weeks old. Around 13 weeks I knew for sure, and unfortunately I was right. There was just too big of a difference in their combs. I'll wait and see how this one turns out...
I bought these two chicks a couple weeks ago, the older one is for sure a pullet (approximately 10 weeks old). The other one, I'm not so sure about. I purchase them from an Ameraucana breeder, but I'm sure the young one may have been too young to tell at the time. He did tell me that both were...
"When I was your age..." (I've said this already and I'm only 36)
"You're bored? Read a book" (Said this one too)
"You are deliberately disobeying me!" (I think I said this once...it annoyed me then and now. Lol)
"For Pete's sake!" (My mom still says this, and we still don't know who Pete is).