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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...

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...

I was looking to get a heated chicken waterer with side nipples for my five chicks for next winter. However, I cannot find one like it that is not heated. Can I just unplug it in the summer? They have the ones that are vertical that are not heated but I have read the horizontal ones are better...

I got the roof on the coop this weekend. Next weekend needs to be on the interior. So I really need some help. I thought I had things kinda figured out but my dimensions of what I thought I was working with are a little different than the actual dimensions. Joy of building my own chicken coop...

So last week when I was at the feed store they had this mystery chick. It does not look like any of the others they ordered. So of course I had to get her. But I am dying to know what she is. Anyone have any ideas? The first two picks are last week when I first got her. The third is today (she...

So I originally started a thread about the ventilation on my chicken coop. I got some great, helpful responses. However, questions about other things are starting to pop up and so I thought I would start a new thread as they do not have to do with ventilation. I posted a picture of the coop I am...

So I am building a chicken coop. I am using the palace chicken coop design such as the one below (plans and pictures come from http://steamykitchen.com/20640-the-palace-chicken-coop.html). However, I have some questions about the ventilation. It never shows where the roost in this coop would be...

I have looked all over and cannot seem to find anything about this. So I am getting ready to get baby chicks. From what I read they will start laying in 4-6 months. So that will be July to September. But when do they slow down for winter? October? November? So they will only have a few months of...

I am finally getting chickens!! However, I am having a hard time finding the best thing to feed them. Does anyone use or have heard of Earth First? It sounds good. No GMO, drugs, fillers, hormones, etc. but I cannot seem to find any reviews on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.