Recent content by kritschixs

Bought day old chicks from the local feed store. This year, they had "Ameraucana" and I believe these were sold as straight run. Its still early, they are 3 weeks old now but wondering if these mohawk crests chickens are roosters! My question: Can a chicken's feathered crest be indicative of a...

Thats a really cute hen house. Did you build it yourself? Does it still look that good? Guess I need to touch up my hens house. Ours is red & white...

Thank You, I think I was in denial, its definitely a cockerel. Before we got chickens a few years ago, I brought it up to my neighbors since we don't have any chicken town laws (not that they knew) and I do live in town with neighbors close by. Anyway my elderly neighbor said, "no roosters no...

This chicken is 7 months old. Shes not laying eggs, doesn't crow, not much wattle but notice the tail feathers. Shes larger than the rest too. I bought these chickens from a farmers flea market so they are mixed & may not all be accurately described as layers! Mostly australorps with some...

UGH! My kids were letting the chickens out of their enclosure to enjoy some grass & run around the yard. Im not sure how this exactly happened but can tell you what I saw. The 4 month old pullet was stuck to the fence door by its beak. Let me say it another way: the fence door end-piece was...

Coons are still out there, but did not nor will not get to my hens! I had one hen out of five left when I put in the hardware cloth over the top of the enclosure. BTW, we used an old 8ft by 26ft long dog run the previous owner installed behind our garage for our enclosure. We waited a month to...

To end this story, it was a vicious raccoon. I had used chicken wire on the top of the enclosure. Now when the hen goes inside her house, I close her door & remove the stairs. I also replaced the top with hardwire cloth. I used 16 gauge wire to hold the seams together. Havent had a problem...

any idea how to deter raccoons from coop? I don't have a trap

After I read your response, I realized I did Not use hardwire on the top! I used hardwire for the house windows. We bought both kinds of chicken wire because we built a temp coop for the garage when they were younger. That's what you get for being cheap! Im going to buy more hardwire cloth...

Lost three chickens outta five within 36 hours inside the coop!( I use coop & enclosure interchangeably.) Anyway we used the"dog run" that came with our house,its at the back of yard and turned it into a chicken coop. Basically a 9"x24"- 4 sided fence with concrete floor, built the hen house...