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I choose a night exposure and put the young girls on the next lower roosting bar after the old girls have gone to bed for the night. The old girls might reach down and peck the new chicks but it's a lot easier than throwing them into the run while everybody's awake so the old girls can have...

I would like to let them run in my chicken run which is 10 x 40 and so that amount of chicken wiring it's not really possible and Ive seen videoes where people are cutting turkey wings but they are adults

To any turkey people, I have turkey chicks for the first time and the smallest one keeps escaping from the pen and getting itself lost. Yesterday I went in after giving up finding it, only to come out an hour later and it was back in the pen! The trouble is that the one remaining in the pen...

I'm only on message #24 out of 400+ and so maybe this has already been answered 10 times over BUT, in my experience, you leave the broody on the fertile eggs that you bought for her until they start to hatch! Get at least two or three done hatching THEN. Move broody, hatched chicks and remaining...

thank you Ttracy!

u still alive???

I think she is entertaining the idea of going broody, maybe just hasn't fully committed yet.

I have searched all over in here and can't find a similar problem. I have a broody Bantam Buff Cochin momma with 5 standard sized 9 wk old chicks and under the roosting bars is much watery poo with dark bits in it. the odor is very ammonia which is odd because I just gutted the area last weekend...

I would suggest to stop the deep litter method until they learn to use the nest boxes. Just each time you take out 1/2 of the shavings, don't add more until you are down to about 1/2 ". Then there is no piling of the shavings into a bowl or nest. Then if the boxes are very high up, build a...

If you place your chickens into nest boxes in the evening or nighttime, they will be happy to start roosting in there because they don't like to move at all after dark. This will only teach them to poop in their work station (The nest boxes) and you will have poop covered eggs. If you would like...

My chickens know my cats from the neighbors cats and set off the crazy chicken alarm whenever the wrong cat is in my yard! I am sure a fox has an odor and a way of moving that the chickens would absolutely freak out over. The biggest mistake that people make with domestic animals is that they...

To the original poster, how high up are those nest boxes exactly (inches high?) and what breed are you working with, and standard size or bantams? The ladder suggestion seems like a good plan although for one of my nest boxes they do hop from an overturned bucket into that box. You can use the...

I was a follower, amazing it was 5 years ago!

Do you mind me asking what was Juinior's cause of death?

I've had real great luck with hatchery chicks, depending on the hatchery! Which one are you using?

GL Wyandottes

About 10 days back I came home from and extra long day at work to eventually find a huge coon in my barn working on killing my chickens when I went to lock down for the night. A nice neighbor a few blocks away had offered the services of her young adult sons who were all hunters, that if I were...

Still waiting for eggs fromn this years' girls....

Ooops, now I see that the finished product is a different color but I am wondering if it comes with a finish that is like a paint coating or did you have to paint it to seal it?

This is a beautiful setup! Did you have to paint it or was it already painted? Do you mind me asking price and what were the dimensions?