When you first started letting them out did you have the fense in place I think that is the mistake I made. My neighbor didn't mind at first and enjoyed them and now she has changed her mind and so they are use to going over there and she has much more inviting leaves and things to scratch so...
I have a plyboard under my roost and I put that plastic runner with the little spikes on back side down on plyboard and in the morning I take a dust pan and small hoe and rack off the dropping from the night and a couple times a week I take the plastic out and spray it clean my coop stays clean...
I have the vintage metal nest and they are just 12x12 and my hens love them they really like to feel a little hidden thought that would help free up some room and I have 7 hens and all are laying but they only use two of the nest I have five on bottom and don't five on top didn't fix the top...
Yes salt even added to the cool water after you have boild them and let them set in it for a few minutes and comes out clean don't know what the salt had to do with it but it works
We got our first egg yesterday,it was laid on the ground in the coop, we had a metal nest in the coop,but had no straw in it as we did not think it was time for them to lay.My question is,what kind of straw do we need to make the nest out of?And how do you get them to go in the nest rather than...