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yes, the common grackle as well as some cowbirds too i think... i moved all the food and treats into the covered run area and that seemed to help but then the bulk of them seem to have moved on with a few stragglers now and then...

So I've just gotten a handle on the rodents (word has spread that if you come slinking around my coops you're gonna get snapped!) and now the fates mock me with a feakin' flock of grackles!?!? Why oh why!? Really I don't care why I just want to not have to stand out there like an idiot with a...

Hello flockers! I have a flock of 6 adult hens and recently added 7 new chickens (10 weeks old) into a new grow out coop. I've got a mixed flock (no two are the same breed) and all is well... But I want me some buckeyes and I can't find any that are coop ready and I'm not set up in-home to...

have my first broody hen in the flock so far (an olive egger). moved her to a wire type rabbit cage beneath a tree so she has shade but lots of indirect light and air flow to cool her off. i was putting her into the coop at night to roost with the others and it seemed to work as each morning...

really nice! I like the green color a lot. what did you use for insulation? i've been working on so many other projects i'm really behind on getting my sec once grow-out coop made. i've only a few weeks before it needs to be completed and ready for move in! O.O i just finished a hearth for...

hardware cloth is what i used for my angles to the roof too, works well and relatively easy to manipulate into the space :)

wow! amazing and so well built! i really like the idea of two coops at either end of a big run, really great. nice going!

i've got 3 new pullets scheduled for june and am thinking of getting another 3 pullets at the same time for a total of 6 to add to the existing flock of 6. my new plan which i'm working on building now is to have a "grow-out" coop for the new ones inside of a separate but adjacent run area...

lol! we live for hot messes! hot messes rule! :)

so far jasmine vine and bamboo have been the only things to survive their digging scratching and pecking. they leave my rosemary bush alone too. i'm thinking larger rose bushes might work too...

i've been running into this as well... my plan is to fence off one half of the yard with deer fencing and plant a cover crop there. once it grows in i'll move the chickens to only have access to that area to range in. then i'll rehab the half that they've tilled for me :) (one way to look...

anybody know anything about selling eggs (small scale) in Sonoma County? I'm thinking glide farmer's market sort of thing or at a local mom and pop shop... what's the process?

would love to see a pic once you have the new set up :)

Big sky coop! I've culled two before with a real big zombie killin' knife and put 'em in the ground for the trees. This one I just couldn't do it so went to the trouble of making a big nest bin with dry ice in the bottom and waited until night when she was asleep, moved her into the bin...

I have 3 or more new pullets coming in June so need to build that grow out coop... If I can time it right (ha! there's a pun!) I'll have an additional 2 from another farm to add to the 3 = 5 . . . So they need their own coop while they grow up and get acquainted with the existing cranky...

I wonder about that two... I assume the chickens will be curious enough to investigate both coops eventually on their own accord and may very well all try and cram into one of them at night for warmth... companionship, hen pecking... etc... what about taking the two dog houses and knocking...

lol this is true... although... when i feed them frog legs for a tasty treat their eggs taste like frog legs O.o

yeah i get that loud and clear. i got 6 out back doing really well and another 3 or 4 on the way in spring/summer. this was just a wrench in the routine that i hadn't experienced yet. so for now the lame legged one is by herself out front until she recovers or i just send her off to the big...

so my little Isbar "Runt" has seemingly out of nowhere developed a lame right leg. no visible or palpable injury, no bumblefoot, no sickness that i can sus out, and she's not egg bound. i have her out front, in a large dog kennel with a tarp over it because of all the rain lately. she has...