Recent content by Tiana Rose

So, I am starting over this year with all new baby chicks. We would like to get six of them. I am wondering when the best time to buy them would be. I want to raise them outside in the chicken house this time. I can close off the hole to the run so they will just be inside. The house part of it...

So I have seven week old baby chicks that I finally was able to move outside into their coop. I want to use the nipple system so I bought one from the store and put that in the pen. I took them over to it and tapped their beak on it and then kinda pecked it myself with my finger. No one would...

Very close! She will probably look like that in a week. I think we have our mystery chicken. Thanks so much. And just fyi, she is my favorite chick. Not sure about egg production yet (although they are supposed to be good) but if all of them have a personality like hers you will not go wrong...

So now that she is several weeks older I thought I would post more picks. I am thinking she may be a welsummer. If so, great job N F C on the guess when she was just a chick. That is amazing. What do you guys think she is?

Thanks for all the reply's. I think I may go with the pdz tray. Maybe I can rig something up with a long handle to get the far end (4 feet). Does that hold up well if you do not clean it for a day or two? I plan to clean it every day when I can but if bad weather hits I want to make sure the...

Thank you for replying. I have read about the pull out try but decided it would not work for me. The doors are on the outside of the coop. If it is driving rain or snowing like crazy or the wind is blowing like mad I do not want to open the door. Driving rain would drench the inside of the coop...

I would like to use a dropping board in my chicken coop. However, I am having a problem with its placement. My coop is 4x6, sits two feet off the ground, and will be home to 5 chickens. The roost will be 4 feet long so it is placed on the side wall that has the highest pitch (it has a slant...

So I will be making the hole for the pop door soon and I am wondering about the placement. It will be a guillotine style door. However, is there a benefit to having it one way or the other? I am trying to decide if I will have the track on the inside of the coop or the outside. It seems to me...

Careful about burying the hardware cloth a foot deep. If you are going straight down you may loosen the post and thus weaken the fence. I have read on here that burying at an angle works better and you do not need to bury so deep. If you bury it at an angle then anything trying to dig under will...

hmm... that is a hard one. First let me say that that is a beautiful set up and I am a little jealous. As for solutions, as the person above me wrote you could do higher fences (Maybe a fence extension), or you could do bird netting over the top. Another option may be to put something on the...

You will want a 2x4 for them to perch on. They need something big enough that they will not wrap their feet completely around it and claw themselves. They like the 4" flat side the best. For the nesting boxes a 12x12 opening seems to be one that many use. Some go a little bigger depending on...

Is there a roost? I did not see one. Also, with the nesting boxes open like that they will be full of droppings in no time....

Thanks, I will look into building my own for summer. I was thinking more about the time from sunrise till I got out there. There is no way I am setting an alarm for 5am to go let them out, no matter how much I love my chickens. That means they will be in there for 2 hours or so after...

Glad it would work with just being unplugged. I have to run an extension cord out to the coop to plug it in in the winter so I cannot have one inside as well. I am hoping since the run is covered and I plan to put plastic around the sides that the water and food outside will help entice them to...

I had the same question. I looked all over the place for the answer. There were pictures of chickens under the drop board that looked like they had plenty of room but no one said what the dimensions were. So I asked here on just a few days ago if 22 inches was enough room (as that was what I had...