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When can I move my chicks outside? I have been reading so much and now I am all confused. The my pet chicken site said 4-5 weeks, another site said 8-10 weeks, and I get even more variety of answers when reading back posts here on BYC. :lol So what do you think? I'm in SW WA. Lows in the...

Okay really was not sure where to put this, has some health questions as well as copp/run issues. I live in the PNW, specifically SW WA, and well its RAINY! Rainy season has started and the outdoor run is just soaked. When it just rains straight down there is a large area that is dry...

We have 8 chickens. I was told 4 of them were 3.5 months (for sure) when we got them and the others were about a month older so 4.5 months (not for sure). It has been 3 months and no one is laying yet. Several of them have very full and red comb and wattles (the younger bunch). Two have...

We have 8 chickens (2 RIR, 2 EE, 1 unsure, 1 polish, 1 gold sexlink, 1 black Ostralorp all between 4.5 to 6 months), none laying yet but soon I hope. I opened up the nest boxes a few weeks ago just in case and some of the chickens go sit in there during the day and kick all the straw out into...

Chicken #1 is Buttbeak. He is my 5 year old son's (who named her if you didn't guess). And yes I typed Buttbeak its not a typo. lol Chicken #2 is Ding. my husband named his two Ding and Dong. Sigh... Chicken #3 is my daughters named Blue. Chicken #4 I realized I don't have a...

I have 8 chickens. I made my own feeder and waterer and its not working out to well. Is it unrealistic to expect to only fill the feeder twice a week or so? Maybe I just need a larger feeder. Its a two gal bucket and part of the prob may be the darn chickens keep knocking it over when it...

We got 4 chickens last week and 4 more on Sunday. I was told the first 4 were between 3-4 months old (she thought). And the second 4 were 3 1/2 months (he is positive on the age) old so I though similar ages great. What do I know about chicken ages. Well I think the first batch is much older...

Sorry if this is the wrong spot. Its coop related but not really building so I did not think it would go there. Feel free to direct me to the right spot if its not. Our girls are in their coop for the first time tonight. We finished it about an hour ago. We still need to shingle the roof...

So we keep running into snags building our first coop. I pot together the nest boxes yesterday and there are a few cracks where the wood was not cut straight. What can I use to seal these with? The biggest cracks are on the back where the door swings down on hinges so I can't have something...

DH was digging the trench for the hardware cloth and we found a wire. I checked the website for my state and it said you did not need to call if you were not digging deeper than 12 inches. So we did not call. Scary since we have absolutely no idea what it is. Also scary considering there is...

Any reason not to get a mixed breed chicken?

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What can I get to cover the top ridge of a roof with if one side is hinged. All they had at home depot was metal and hard plastic and the guy said they would eventually break from opening the roof. I though I read some where on here that someone used something rubber but I can't find it in the...

We are building our run today and I realized I do not have enough hardware cloth for the top. So I need to leave an get some in about an hour. What should I get? Hardware cloth or chicken wire? The walls will be hardware cloth and roof is about 6 ft tall. We do have raccoons and possums and...

We will hopefully be getting chickens next week if we can get the coop finished this weekend. So I realized I should prob think about feeding them. Can anyone link me some good directions to make a feeder and a waterer? They need to be smallish/compact to take up less space in the coop. We...

How do you attach separate pieces of hardware cloth together to make it predator safe?

Hi We are hoping to get some chickens (need a coop first) and I have some questions about coops and runs. We are tight on money so hoping to save on the coop to build a better/safer run. We are thinking about using/modifying a large doghouse or two for the coop. 1) Would it be better to...