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I have a homemade hover I built and can't get it to maintain the temp at 95°. Would putting an apron around it help and will the chicks know how to go through it to get to the heat?

I am looking for feeder ideas that aren't the treadle type or PVC. I want something I can put a whole bag of feed in and that the chickens can't scratch or scoop the feed out onto the floor. My birds are wasting a lot of feed right now.

This feeder holds about 200 pounds of feed and the waterer holds 60 gallons of water and supplies 2 coops with water via 8 water nipples.

Is anyone besides me brooding more than 5-10 chicks? I have 100 in my brooder right now.

I have a 24 x 24 barn with a dirt floor that I am planning to convert into a coop for my 25 layers (I go pick them up on April 9th). The only issue I am having a hard time with is how to predator proof the outside edges of the barn. There are gaps in places between the ground and the bottom of...

My name is Denny. My son (7) and I wanted to start some kind of livestock on our 21 acres so we decided on chickens. We have an old horse barn we are converting part of for our new guests. We are getting 25 pullets and 75 cockerels in the next couple weeks plus a few Cornish cross hatch-lings...