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The new ones I got keep dying. They have one swollen eye and are slowly dying...

Mine are 10x10x12 due to lack of carpentry skills. Will this work for now?

For standard chickens

Something else that just popped in my head. Do silkies remain broody after they reach the age they stop laying?

I was wondering if having some silkie hens just as good as having an incubator? I'm in mississippi if that is useful.

Hey everybody! I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a place to order good Australorp hatching eggs. Me and my lady are preparing to enter the chicken business. We have a mixed variety of birds and want to start out selling Australorps because we feel those will sell the...

I was wondering if this would make a good roost?

Sorry. I'm in mississippi

My main concern was did I have enough space? If so, how many more birds could I fit comfortably in there? I have 34 now and the pen is 20x16 ft. I think that bird was about to jump in that red nesting box lol. We are planning on getting nesting boxes asap. We had two roosts in the open area...

Here is the link to my post with pics https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2905593#p2905593

I'm going to try to post this with pics of my set up. I'm doing it from my phone so I'm not sure how its gonna work so if you guys can see the pictures please let me know lol. I have 34 birds in this pen and was wondering what all I need to add for them to be happy. Pics:

I'm about to try and post some pics of my setup on the coop board. Ill let ya know as soon as its done

I'm pretty sure the guy said they are 4 months old. The new ones are the silver laced wine(know that's not the right way to spell that) dottes. The others are some barred rocks, araconnas, sex links, and mutts. I have about 34 birds in a 10 x 20 coop. Is that too small? And the food and water...

Ah. That's good to know! Thanks for the help!

We have two banny hens that we let go in the yard. We had them out for about 4 months and put them back in the pen. They have been in there for about 3 weeks and still no eggs. Why could this be?