Hi guys,
I'm doing something wrong and I'm heartsick. 2 Nankin girls went broody and sat on 4 eggs each. I had heard about first timers having trouble resettling after being moved, so I let them sit on their eggs in the drawer in the bottom of the cabinet that is their home coop. They prefer it...
Hi all,
Marie Antoinette is a first time broody, and I'm first time support staff!
Day 19 is Friday, so tonight I intend to move her into a spacious crate. She has 4 eggs. She had a nesting box she's declined to use in favor of a drawer on the bottom of the cabinet that is their coop.
I had a...
Hi guys, finally ready to put together a hoop coop this weekend. It will be a run before winter and I get the permanent coop built.
I'm wondering about predator proofing the base. (Hardware cloth over the cattle panels for the body). The example I am working from shows 1 electrified wire all...
Hi guys/gals--
As I mentioned in my intro, I'm brand new but a compulsive researcher...so I have lots of theory--no experience. I'd like to begin with 3 girls, and I suspect already that chickens are a bit like potato chips....
So my quandary: I don't own a mitre saw--or band saw for that...
Hi all,
I'm the NKOTB for the moment; most friends call me 'G'. I moved from VA to Pittsboro, NC last August (new job), and was blessed to find a little over 3 acres with a perfect house with an even more perfect 2-stall barn and paddock on it. It's spring, first year of country livin', and I...