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I have a lovely, spacious coop for my egg-layers, but I am getting 10 cornish cross meat birds and I want to build a simple box coop out of scrap lumber I have on hand. My potential design comes to 7.5 sq ft. They will only sleep in it, and will free range during the day. Will that be enough...

Our coop is raised about 2 ft on legs, and we have a chicken ladder leading up into it. Our other chickens flutter or jump up using the ladder no problem. They also jump 18" to reach the roost bar. Can Cornish Cross handle these two challenges? Thanks!

Thanks for your suggestions. We tried surgery today. I didn't get much pus, even though I squeezed from lots of different angles. I cut the cap off with a scalpel and dug around, but I was afraid to go too deep. I packed it with neosporin, wrapped her foot in vetrap and set her free. She...

I have a guess about what this is, but would appreciate confirmation. Her foot is swollen between the toes, and she's walking gingerly. Thanks!

Thanks for all these helpful thoughts. I would say rodents are out. Clean, small, new coop with no trace of rodents. She might have gotten scraped on a bit of dangly chicken wire on the fence--I found some of that. As for mites...These are young birds--not even one year old. I understand...

My ameraucana chicken has these wounds on her feet. We have 4 other chickens, and they are all fine. What is it? What should we do?