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(1) I have had chickens for the past 12 years, from 3 to a 60 hen headcount. (3) Black Australorp, Jersey Giants, Buckeye, and Golden Buff (4) I found BackYardChickens.com through a message forum search. (5) Other hobbies, fish aquariums and photography. (6) 3 dogs are the other pets, a...

OK, we lost our "Amish Place" we sold our eggs from (we were the last new seller and egg sales were slowing). We are planning on selling from home and are aware of the local laws. Those of you that sell from home is it an: 1. Honor system open 24 hours 2. You only sell from XX:00 to YY:00...

It looks better now. Your husband must be a genius!

16-20 weeks. Its usually on the bag.

My JG's use the 5 gallon buckets on the side.

Ditto to what E.G.Glayer said! Grit not needed, that starter feed just dissolves with water.

Make sure you put some kind of drip loop. The one with the pics has the switch in the lower part of the loop. Given any kind of coop leaks or condensation the water will run down. Same with e-cords, the plug should be up high for the same reason.

What you are looking for is a "Framing Nailer" air powered of course. You will have to buy nails made for that nailer you buy. Of course you will need and air compressor and sometimes they will sell combo packages.

This is what we used indoors. You could close it in more. The base is a 4x8' sheet of plywood, 2x4's for the frame and chicken wire all around. We had about 32 chicks in there. FYI - I used screws so it would be easier to disassemble.

The Sams Club feed is a crumble. From the looks of it less than 1% is visible pieces of corn. I will have to look at the protein content since I am due to pick up another bag this week.

Anyone else use the layer feed at Sams Club? It's about 9.50 for a 50 lb bag in Ohio. We use a bag a week for 30 birds and the local TSC was creeping up to $14.00 a bag.

If you just want to pus a brooder bulb in there... Look for a timer that will work with a kerosene forced air heater, the ones that look like a jet engine. They should handle three amps. A 100 watt bulb will pull about 0.833 amps, so even if your heater bulb is under 300 watts it should be...

You should be able to do what I did if you are comfortable doing it. I and my hot wires on the outside of the fence perimeter. Most places that sell the fencers will sell about 10 different times of them, just keep the hot wire off the fence itself. I then ran the fence itself as the ground...

Rolls.... Ever see a chicken run with a roll in it's mouth

Ditto with Momo Just make sure the roosts are wide enough to sit on their feet and there are no breezes inside the coop and all should be well. If you do decide to hang them please use chain instead or rope, which can fail.