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I really enjoyed your response and appreciate your thoughts Blooie and yes, there are too few birds for such a space, especially for keeping warm in the winter. I will be getting more someday. The idea of making a four sided, open in the front, box/area around the roost area is even better...

Hi, Here's some photos of our new coop. The inside does not have a 'ceiling'...it is open to the metal roof/rafters. Do you think more needs to be done to keep it 'warmer' in the winter? It can get very cold here with wind chills minus 30 plus during the worst winter months. I realize they...

Wanted to thank you all for your thoughts and expertise on this. As nice as the eggs are I think I'll just leave things as they are for now / this winter, and make a decision in the spring. That may sound crazy but my experiences in the past with integrating new animals has always been a huge...

Hi, We have a good sized chicken coop, divided in half, with one side containing my meat king hen, and the other side with two leghorn hens, but they are fully visible to each other. The meat king and leghorns do not like each other so I have kept them separated and all are very happy with this...

ZERO today...from two Leghorns...but I love them...they are pets...and they'll be here for life. We'll get a few more in the future. : )

Wet sand inside the coop, fan and cold water to drink...works great. I put the sand in those low rubber round horse feed tubs and wet it down enough to make it like beach sand. They LOVE it and my pet meat king lays in there very comfortably...her favorite spot in the heat of the day. I keep...

Yes, I know, every day is a gift for her being a meat king and well past her 'expiry date'. She is on a limited diet and it seems to work. I couldn't let her go that day, (processing day), she was the runt of them all and won me over with her sweetness...roosting in my knee etc. She was...

Hi, I appreciate your thoughts. : ) She is alone in her enclosure and coop, but in both places, they are fully visible to each other. Coconut hates the laying hens and vice versa, so I keep them separate and all appear very content. I never see one trying to get in with another for...

She's only done this a couple of times thankfully. I'm thinking she saw a small critter around the outside of their coop. We've set a live trap just in case. Maybe she heard it underneath the coop when she was inside and got scared. She didn't even want to come up her ramp that day...so she...

Hi, I can't seen to download videos so I have to describe what is happening and hope some of you out there can shed some light. My year plus old meat king hen, Coconut, has done the following behaviour twice since yesterday, once out in her fenced yard and once in her coop: She stands there...

Sounds like you are doing a good job taking care of your animals considering their ages! : )

That's funny, because when I think about it, my dear old mare is gray/white, my favorite pet goat who I had for eight years was white, and we have four calves...and my favorite is the white one. I am especially fond of gray ponies and horses now that I've had one. Funny how that works. : )

True...they aren't hardy. Like you said, "if it ain't broke don't fix it.". Every day I see Coconut I think how lucky she, and I am, that she is still here...as she really wasn't supposed to be around past nine weeks. I truly adore her...she brings me great joy. (And I love the two laying...

We got out meat kings back all 'processed' and I felt bad when the smallest one went into the freezer....that being the little one I was going to keep as a pet. Made me question not keeping her..she was pretty sweet and eager to come over to me when I went in to feed them all. But then I look...

Thank you for the links. : )